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paleontologist

[ pey-lee-uhn-tol-uh-jistor, especially British, pal-ee- ]

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noun

a scientist who specializes in the study of life forms that existed in previous geologic periods, as represented by their fossils:
The education program manager for the museum has worked as a paleontologist, digging up dinosaur bones in Wyoming.

Ross is an esteemed paleontologist and university professor.

The new Research Institute set features an all-female cast: a paleontologist, astronomer, and chemist.

As a paleontologist, he obviously understands the public fascination with dinosaurs and their remains.

His partner in this adventure is Dr. Violet Hurst, a sexy, tart-tongued, paleontologist.

The father, Jonathan, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, experiences seizures at the sight of a cloud.

He held long consultations with Edouard Lartet, the eminent paleontologist and his learned friends concerning it.

He then proceeds to theorize, hand in hand with the paleontologist, or student of ancient life.

There he found a spiritual paleontologist at work reconstructing extinct souls from the merest fossil fragments.

The paleontologist now reached up to a geometrical plane and brought down another small fossil.

The paleontologist removed the confounded monocle from his eye, and wiped the lens with a bit of chamois skin.

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