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SCHOOLCRAFT
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• SCHOOLCRAFT (noun)
The noun SCHOOLCRAFT has 1 sense:
1. United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)
Familiarity information: SCHOOLCRAFT used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft; Schoolcraft
Instance hypernyms:
ethnologist (an anthropologist who studies ethnology)
adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
geologist (a specialist in geology)
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