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Cuvier [ˈkjuːvɪeɪ (French) kyvje] n
(Biographies / Cuvier, Georges (Jean-Leopold-Nicolas-Frédéric), Baron (1769-1832) M, French, SCIENCE: zoologist, POLITICS: statesman) Georges (Jean-Leopold-Nicolas-Frédéric) (ʒɔrʒ), Baron. 1769-1832, French zoologist and statesman; founder of the sciences of comparative anatomy and palaeontology ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| It was now their turn to impose some limit on that selenographic science, which had reconstructed the lunar world as Cuvier did the skeleton of a fossil, and say, "The moon Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy. Cuvier pronounced these fragments to have belonged to some utterly unknown Leviathanic species. |
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