fossil copal

1. 1.

   partly mineralized copal dug from the ground

   Synonymscopalitecopaline

   Broadercopal

Questions about fossil copal

What does fossil copal mean?

fossil copal means "partly mineralized copal dug from the ground".

What is another word for fossil copal?

Close synonyms include copalite, copaline. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fossil copal a common word?

fossil copal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.