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palaeontologist

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,224 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: palaeontologists

A palaeontologist is a scientist who studies ancient life from its remains. A leading palaeontologist, ask a palaeontologist, palaeontologists disagree.

Most of the work is in the laboratory and the collection rather than in the field, since preparing a fossil takes far longer than finding it. America spells it paleontologist.

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Definitions of palaeontologist

  1. 1nounpalaeontologistA scientist who studies ancient life from its remains.B2+

    “The palaeontologist carefully brushed the dirt from the dinosaur bone.”

palaeontologist is a scientist.

Also accepted in games: paleontologist

Where it comes from

paleontologist comes from paleontology + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Dinosaurs & Prehistory

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palaeontologist in the wild

  • Professor David Bruce Weishampel is an American palaeontologist in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

    David B. Weishampel

  • In its open cast coal mine palaeontologist found sixteen preserved trunks of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old.

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  • Ward worked for 14 years as a veterinary surgeon while being an amateur palaeontologist and taking part in several expeditions to Africa.

    David Ward (palaeontologist)

  • Cyril Alexander Walker was a British palaeontologist, curator of fossil birds in the Natural History Museum.

    Cyril Walker (palaeontologist)

  • Robert Joseph Gay Savage was a British palaeontologist known as Britain's leading expert on fossil mammals.

    R. J. G. Savage

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.