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fossilizer en · NOUN

Etymology

From fossilize + -er.

Meanings

1. That which causes or undergoes fossilization.
   • Because their wood contains so much water, and fallen baobabs decompose so quickly, the trees are poor fossilizers. 2007, Rupert Watson, The African Baobab, page 14:
   • When they refuse, she turns her fossilizer ray on them then returns to the 25th century to dig them up. 2015, Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy, The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition:

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