LEAKEY

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• LEAKEY (noun)
  The noun LEAKEY has 3 senses:

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)

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

3. English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)

  Familiarity information: LEAKEY used as a noun is uncommon.

• 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Leakey; Mary Douglas Leakey; Mary Leakey

Instance hypernyms:

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist (a specialist in paleontology)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Leakey; Louis Leakey; Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey

Instance hypernyms:

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist (a specialist in paleontology)