living fossil
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.living fossil
nounDefinition of LIVING FOSSIL
: an organism (as a horseshoe crab or a ginkgo tree) that has remained essentially unchanged from earlier geologic times and whose close relatives are usually extinct
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1922
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