LEAKEY

Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey

(noun) English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)

Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey

(noun) English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)

Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey

(noun) English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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