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Cuvier

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Cu·vier  (kyv-, kv-y, kü-vy), Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert 1769-1832.
French naturalist who is considered the founder of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology.
Cuvier [ˈkjuːvɪeɪ (French) kyvje]
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(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
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Noun1.CuvierCuvier - French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832)
Baron Georges Cuvier, Georges Cuvier, Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier


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Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy.
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Cuvier pronounced these fragments to have belonged to some utterly unknown Leviathanic species.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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