These are the meanings of the letters FOSSLIFY when you unscramble them.
- Flossy (a.)
Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
- Fossil (a.)
Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
- Fossil (a.)
Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
- Fossil (n.)
A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
- Fossil (n.)
A substance dug from the earth.
- Fossil (n.)
The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
- Ossify (v. i.)
To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
- Ossify (v. t.)
Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
- Ossify (v. t.)
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.