Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South
American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.
1. Dug out of the eart; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. 2. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparent...
