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Перевод: fossil

[прилагательное]
окаменелый; ископаемый; старомодный; допотопный;
[существительное]
окаменелость ; ископаемое
[существительное]

Тезаурус:

1. Brachiopods have one of the longest histories and one of the best fossil records of any invertebrate.
2. If energy can be obtained from tides, waves and windmills that is better than energy obtained from fossil fuels, which are non-renewable.
3. The fossil remains of beetles, including the hard elytra, have been extensively used in the interpretation of the climatic history of the Pleistocene ice advances and retreats, because the species of beetle present in peat deposits change in harmony with the climatic fluctuations.
4. It is not surprising that new fossil species are discovered daily, and indeed the amateur collector has a good chance of finding a new species of fossil, if he looks hard enough and learns to recognize what he has found.
5. MacKinnon believes that a robust medium-sized Dryopithecine ape fossil ( D. sivalensis ), with the highly crenellated teeth that characterize the orang-utan, was the animal's probable ancestor.
6. But like the use of every fossil fuel there is some price to be paid at the tail pipe in pollution (although diesel is improving all the time).
7. However, estimates of the space needed for a battery of windmills capable of producing the same amount of electricity as a normal power station, fossil fuel or nuclear, range from 100 to 200 square miles.
8. The artsman is an antique fossil and at best will make a fine filing clerk.
9. The early fossil bony fish have tails with the long blade uppermost, whereas the more advanced living bony fish have a tail that is symmetrical, and more effective in producing a horizontal thrust.
10. For heaven's sake, Rachel, look at the fossil record as a whole.
11. For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct.
12. Fossil Typhis are frequent fossils in the Eocene rocks of Europe.
13. To take one example, if Britain stopped burning fossil fuels altogether, the world's output of carbon dioxide - some 6 billion tonnes a year - would fall by only 160m tonnes.