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paleontologist

paleontologist noun: one who studies paleontology.

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
    • In the late nineteenth century, paleontologists began to catalog the many curious correspondences exhibited by fossils gathered on different continents.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 197

paleontologist meaning in Hindi and Bengali

paleontologist in Hindi

one who studies paleontology
जीवाश्मविज्ञानी jīvāśmavijñānī

paleontologist in Bengali

জীবাশ্মবিজ্ঞানী

Forms of paleontologist

pluralpaleontologists
alternative Commonwealthpalaeontologist
alternative form (dated)palæontologist

Plural of paleontologist: paleontologists

Origin of paleontologist

From paleontology + -ist.

Words formed from paleontologist

Questions about paleontologist

What does paleontologist mean?
Paleontologist means one who studies paleontology.
What is paleontologist in Hindi?
Paleontologist in Hindi is जीवाश्मविज्ञानी (jīvāśmavijñānī). See Paleontologist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is paleontologist?
Paleontologist is a noun.
What is the plural of paleontologist?
The plural of paleontologist is paleontologists.

Words near paleontologist in the dictionary

  1. paleontography
  2. paleontol.
  3. paleontologic
  4. paleontological
  5. paleontologically
  6. paleontologist
  7. paleontologists
  8. paleontologize
  9. paleontology
  10. paleonurseries
  11. paleonursery

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