Illustration: At an outdoor fossil workshop beside a Japanese natural-history museum, a child holds apart the two halves of a freshly split stone. A tightly coiled ammonite is embedded in one half, with its matching impression in the other.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

化か石せき

kaseki

fossil

Example sentences

私わたしが手てにしてるのは貝かいの化石かせきです。
What I have in my hand is a fossil seashell.
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まるで化石かせきみたいな人間にんげんだわ。
He is a living fossil!
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最近熱帯植物さいきんねったいしょくぶつの貴重きちょうな化石かせきが見みつかった。
A unique fossil of a tropical plant was found recently.
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Kanji in 化石

化change; take the form ofOnカ・ケKunばける・ばかす・ふける
石stoneOnセキ・シャク・コクKunいし

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