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RICHARD LEAKEY

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RICHARD LEAKEY (noun)
  The noun RICHARD LEAKEY has 1 sense:

1. 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)play

  Familiarity information: RICHARD LEAKEY used as a noun is very rare.


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RICHARD LEAKEY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Leakey; Richard Erskine Leakey; Richard Leakey

Instance hypernyms:

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist (a specialist in paleontology)


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