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paleontologize en · VERB

Etymology

From paleontology + -ize.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To study or practise paleontology.
   • I am delighted thal you are in the field, geologising or palæontologising. I beg you to read the two Rogers’ account of the Coal-fields of N. America¹; in my opinion they are eminently instructive and suggestive. [1846], Charles Darwin, “To J. D. Hooker”, in Francis Darwin, A. C. Seward, editors, More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters, volume II, London: John Murray, published 1903, page 217:

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