PALEONTOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paleontologist mean? 

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

1. a specialist in paleontology

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALEONTOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in paleontology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist

Hypernyms ("paleontologist" 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:

paleontology (the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains)

 Context examples 

Paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

Like a paleontologist, able to reconstruct an entire skeleton from one fossil bone, he was able to reconstruct a whole speech from the one word revolution.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

'We can see the insertions of muscles and tendons, scars,' added Ronan Allain, a paleontologist at Paris' National Museum of Natural History.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dubbed "Yi qi", the fossil was bizarre enough that it divided paleontologist opinion on whether or not the creature had wings.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Paleontologists are excited by the almost-complete skeleton.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

The late paleontologist F. Rex Parrington first discovered T. rhadinus fossils in Tanzania in 1933.

(Scientists discover fossil of dinosaur ancestor with surprising croc-like appearance, NSF)

That association led paleontologists to believe that the world's best-preserved fossil collections came from choked oceans.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)

The fossil gives paleontologists a glimpse of hyaenodont anatomy before modern carnivores invaded the continent, revealing that Pakakali was about the size of a bobcat.

(Fossil discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore, National Science Foundation)

A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant Ginkgo biloba.

(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)

Paleontologists have discovered an almost complete skull of a previously unknown mammal that likely resembled a large modern-day groundhog and lived alongside dinosaurs.

(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)