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paleoart

paleoart noun: art that depicts subjects related to paleontology.

Noun

paleoart (uncountable)

  1. (US) Art that depicts subjects related to paleontology.
  2. (US) The primitive art of Paleolithic peoples.

Forms of paleoart

alternative UKpaleo art
alternative UKpalaeoart

Origin of paleoart

Coined by American artist Mark Hallett in 1987, from paleo- + art.

Questions about paleoart

What does paleoart mean?
Paleoart means art that depicts subjects related to paleontology.
What part of speech is paleoart?
Paleoart is a noun.

Words near paleoart in the dictionary

  1. paleoanthropometry
  2. paleoarch
  3. Paleoarchean
  4. paleoarcheology
  5. paleoarches
  6. paleoart
  7. paleoartist
  8. paleoartists
  9. Paleoasian
  10. paleoastronomy
  11. paleoatmosphere

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paleoart (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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