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FOSSILIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A specialist in paleontology
Synonyms:
fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist
Classified under:
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)
