palaeontology
English Thesaurus
1. the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | earth science, |
| definition | : | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | palaeobiology, paleobiology, |
| definition | : | a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | micropaleontology, |
| definition | : | the paleontology of microfossils (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | frill, |
| definition | : | (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs (noun.body) |
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