Petrifaction vs Fossil - What's the difference?
petrifaction | fossil |
The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
(paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
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(linguistics) A fossilized term.
(figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
As nouns the difference between petrifaction and fossil
is that petrifaction is the condition of being petrified while fossil is fossil.fossil
English
(wikipedia fossil)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}