fossilist
IPA: fˈɑsʌɫɪst
noun
- (obsolete) A fossil collector, or a paleontologist.
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Examples of "fossilist" in Sentences
- Journey (Works, ix. 43) speaks of 'Mr. Janes the fossilist.'
- Ib. [1132] The fossilist of last century is the geologist of this.
- Mary Anning (1799-1847), paleontologist and "the greatest fossilist the world ever knew"
- It is well shaded by tall ash trees, of a species, as Mr. Janes the fossilist informed me, uncommonly valuable.
- One purpose of it was to bring into contempt Dr. Woodward, the fossilist, a man not really or justly contemptible.
- The authour neither says he is a geographer, nor an antiquarian, nor very learned in the history of Scotland, nor a naturalist, nor a fossilist [893].
- For once, though no one living is abused; but as a matter of fact one purpose of the play was, as Dr. Johnson said, “to bring into contempt Dr. Woodward, the fossilist, a man not really or justly contemptible.”
- For once, though no one living is abused; but as a matter of fact one purpose of the play was, as Dr. Johnson said, "to bring into contempt Dr. Woodward, the fossilist, a man not really or justly contemptible."
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