PALAEONTOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palaeontologist mean? 

• PALAEONTOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun PALAEONTOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a specialist in paleontology

  Familiarity information: PALAEONTOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALAEONTOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in paleontology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist

Hypernyms ("palaeontologist" is a kind of...):

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Instance hyponyms:

Gould; Stephen Jay Gould (United States paleontologist and popularizer of science (1941-2002))

Leakey; Louis Leakey; Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972))

Leakey; Mary Douglas Leakey; Mary Leakey (English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996))

Leakey; Richard Erskine Leakey; Richard Leakey (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))

Owen; Sir Richard Owen (English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892))

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Teilhard de Chardin (French paleontologist and philosopher (1881-1955))

Derivation:

palaeontology (the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains)

 Context examples 

Palaeontologists unearthed a two meters long thigh bone that belonged to a giant sauropod dinosaur around 140 million years ago.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Palaeontologists have documented long-term links between climate and the geographic distributions of major bird groups, but the computer models needed to quantify this link had not been applied to this question until now.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

According to Brazilian palaeontologist Alexander Kellner, the discovery was made during in 2015 and 2016 expeditions in the Hami region, northwestern China.

(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)