ANDREWS

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

1. United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)

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

• ANDREWS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andrews; Roy Chapman Andrews

Instance hypernyms:

natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))

 Context examples 

Kim and researchers at Andrews University in Michigan and Kyung Hee University in South Korea focused their research on mode conversion, the way in which some EMIC waves form.

(Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth, National Science Foundation)

I remember Miss Andrews could not get through the first volume.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Work by Dr Richard Randall, a co-author on the manuscript from the University of St Andrews, has shown that influenza viruses are good at hiding their RNA.

('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )

I know you very well; you have so much animation, which is exactly what Miss Andrews wants, for I must confess there is something amazingly insipid about her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I wish you knew Miss Andrews, you would be delighted with her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I remember too, Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep a wink all right for thinking of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I told Captain Hunt at one of our assemblies this winter that if he was to tease me all night, I would not dance with him, unless he would allow Miss Andrews to be as beautiful as an angel.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)