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palaeontologist

palaeontologist is the alternative spelling of paleontologist.

Meaning of paleontologist

Noun

paleontologist (plural paleontologists)

  1. One who studies paleontology.
    • An alternative approach is to break down cultures into ab-
      stract elements and to establish, between elements of the same
      type in different cultures, rather than between cultures themselves,
      the same kind of relationships of historical descent and progressive
      differentiation which the...1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 4

Forms of palaeontologist

pluralpalaeontologists

Questions about palaeontologist

What is palaeontologist the alternative spelling of?
Palaeontologist is the alternative spelling of paleontologist.

Words near palaeontologist in the dictionary

  1. palaeontography
  2. palaeontol
  3. palaeontologic
  4. palaeontological
  5. palaeontologically
  6. palaeontologist
  7. palaeontologists
  8. palaeontology
  9. palaeonutrition
  10. palaeoparasitological
  11. palaeoparasitology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palaeontologist (page history and authors); paleontologist (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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