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Baer

[ bair ]

noun

  1. Karl Ernst von [kahrl urnst von, f, uh, n], 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.
  2. Max, 1909–59, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1934.


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Example Sentences

Baer, the Arizona artist, said she had heard that Clinton reads a book a day.

It has all the complexity of a really superb abstract painting, by Malevich, say, or maybe Jo Baer.

The president was sitting at his desk; Don Baer and Mark Gearan, his communications chief, were standing across.

Baer began to make notes on his napkin, determined to dedicate an episode of the new season's show to this issue.

“No, Peter [Orzag] did not put this idea forward,” says his spokesman Kenneth Baer.

Mr. Petherick says, that the Baer tribe carry a different kind of iron missile from the Neam-Nams.

This, at any rate, was von Baer's opinion, who assigns to Pander the glory of the discovery of the germ-layers.

It was to one of the German transcendentalists that von Baer owed the impulse to study development.

One important consequence for morphology results from von Baer's laws of differentiation within the type.

Baer at once brings us face to face with the solution of the problem attempted in the Meckel-Serres law.

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