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WELL-PRESERVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-preserved mean? 

WELL-PRESERVED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-PRESERVED has 1 sense:

1. used of older persons who are healthyplay

  Familiarity information: WELL-PRESERVED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WELL-PRESERVED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of older persons who are healthy

Similar:

healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)


 Context examples 


Large glass deposits are present in several ancient, yet well-preserved, craters on Mars.

(NASA Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars, NASA)

The well-preserved skull of Vintana sertichi is giving researchers their first clear insights into the life habits and relationships of gondwanatherians.

(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)

A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant Ginkgo biloba.

(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)

Remnants of the creature's plumage and tissues were well-preserved, allowing researchers to slowly piece together the history and form of the unusual dinosaur,.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Johnson said his work on the project started when he talked with Wing and learned about the well-preserved, 3.2-billion-year-old ocean crust from the Archaean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) in a remote part of Western Australia.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)



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