VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vertebrate paleontology mean? 

• VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY (noun)
  The noun VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the paleontology of vertebrates

  Familiarity information: VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The paleontology of vertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("vertebrate paleontology" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vertebrate paleontology"):

human palaeontology; human paleontology; palaeoanthropology; paleoanthropology (the scientific study of human fossils)