Word Meanings - ENCRINUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.

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• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• MESOZOIC
  Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.
• FOSSIL
  Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
• FOSSILIST
  One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
• FOSSILIZED
  Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
• ENCRINOIDEA
  That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.
• ROCKSUCKER
  A lamprey.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• FOSSILIZE
  1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. 2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her
• FOSSILISM
  1. The science or state of fossils. Coleridge. 2. The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
• FOSSILIFEROUS
  Containing or composed of fossils.
• FOSSILIFICATION
  The process of becoming fossil.
• CORK FOSSIL
  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• LONGMYND ROCKS
  The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.