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FOSSILOLOGY

• FOSSILOLOGY (noun)
The noun FOSSILOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains

Familiarity information: FOSSILOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

• FOSSILOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fossilology; palaeontology; paleontology

Hypernyms ("fossilology" is a kind of...):

earth science (any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts)

Domain member category:

frill ((paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fossilology"):

palaeobiology; paleobiology (a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms)

micropaleontology (the paleontology of microfossils)

vertebrate paleontology (the paleontology of vertebrates)

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