Paleontologist

Alternative forms

• palaeontologist, palæontologist

Origin

en + -paleontology + ist

Full definition of paleontologist

Noun

1. One who studies paleontology.
• 1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, 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 paleontologist sees in the evolution of
  species.
• 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, In the late nineteenth century, paleontologists began to catalog the many curious correspondences exhibited by fossils gathered on different continents.