Living fossil in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “living fossil” in Hindi is जीवित जीवाश्म, pronounced jīvit jīvāśma — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
Any species discovered first as a fossil and believed extinct, but which is later found living; an organism that has remained unchanged over geological periods.
The term was coined by the English biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) in his work On the Origin of Species (1859): see the quotation below.
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