All 9 Uses

preserve
in
Jurassic Park
(Edited)

Supposedly to set up a biological preserve.
p. 39.3

preserve = a place where conditions are maintained to protect wildlife
When we remove fossils that are broken or for some other reason not suitable for museum preservation, we send the bones out to a lab that grinds them up and tries to extract proteins for us.
p. 44.9

preservation = protection
And infant-dinosaur bones were so fragile. She marveled that they had been preserved at all, after eighty million years.
p. 46.3

preserved = kept as they were
Going to be a biological preserve.
p. 51.2

preserve = a place where conditions are maintained to protect wildlife
Up the coast there, you see the Cabo Blanco preserve.
p. 85.4

preserve = a place where conditions are kept as they were to protect wildlife
Making it the largest private animal preserve in North America.
p. 85.9 *

preserve = protected wildlife area
Of course, if a dinosaur was frozen, or preserved in a peat bog, or mummified in a desert environment, then its DNA might be recoverable.
p. 95.3

preserved = kept as it was
The insects are then perfectly preserved within the fossil.
p. 111.4

preserved = kept as they were
And then the insects are preserved in amber….
p. 111.6 *

Definitions:

(1) (preserve as in: preserve the records)
to protect something or to keep it as it is
(2) (preserve as in: preserve the peaches)
to prepare food in a way that keeps it from spoiling
(3) (preserve as in: a wildlife preserve)
protected wildlife area
(4) (preserve as in: no longer a male preserve)
something exclusive to (someone or some group) -- such as an activity or place
(5) (preserves as in: mom made preserves)
chunks of fruit cooked with sugar (like jam) and sealed (usually in a mason jar) so it will not spoil
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)