FOSSILIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fossilist mean? 

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

1. a specialist in paleontology

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOSSILIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in paleontology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist

Hypernyms ("fossilist" 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:

fossil (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)