palaeontologist
English Thesaurus
1. a specialist in paleontology (noun.person)
hypernym | : | scientist, |
definition | : | a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gould, stephen jay gould, |
definition | : | United States paleontologist and popularizer of science (1941-2002) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | leakey, mary douglas leakey, mary leakey, |
definition | : | English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | leakey, richard erskine leakey, richard leakey, |
definition | : | English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | owen, sir richard owen, |
definition | : | English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892) (noun.person) |
derivation | : | fossil, |
definition | : | the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil (noun.object) |
derivation | : | fossil, |
definition | : | the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil (noun.object) |
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