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palæobiology

palæobiology is the archaic spelling of paleobiology.

Meaning of paleobiology

Noun

paleobiology (uncountable)

  1. The branch of biology or paleontology concerned with the study of fossils of plants and animals

Origin of palæobiology

From palæo- + bio- + -logy.

Questions about palæobiology

What is palæobiology the archaic spelling of?
Palæobiology is the archaic spelling of paleobiology.

Words near palæobiology in the dictionary

  1. Palæeskimo
  2. palæo-
  3. palæoanthropologist
  4. palæoanthropologists
  5. palæoanthropology
  6. palæobiology
  7. palæobotany
  8. Palæocene
  9. palæoclimatology
  10. palæoethnobotany
  11. palæogeography

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palæobiology (page history and authors); paleobiology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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