Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of paleontology that deals with plant fossils and ancient vegetation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That department of paleontology which treats of fossil plants, as distinguished from paleozoölogy, or the study of fossil animals; the science or study of fossil plants; geologic botany. Also
paleophytology . Comparepaleozoölogy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The branch of
paleontology that deals with the study ofplant fossils .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the study of fossil plants
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Examples
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Familiarity with the paleontology, especially the paleobotany, of the Late Triassic is helpful but not necessary.
Jobs and Internships! ReBecca Foster 2009
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Familiarity with the paleontology, especially the paleobotany, of the Late Triassic is helpful but not necessary.
Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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Familiarity with the paleontology, especially the paleobotany, of the Late Triassic is helpful but not necessary.
Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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Familiarity with the paleontology, especially the paleobotany, of the Late Triassic is helpful but not necessary.
Jobs and Internships! ReBecca Foster 2009
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During her career, Estella has authored more than 100 scientific publications in the fields of paleobotany, forest history, restoration ecology and environmental quality.
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James Mellaart, despite his embrace of radiocarbon dating, paleobotany, and other scientific methods, was firmly entrenched in the culture history school of archaeology.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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These fools should read an introductory paleobotany textbook sometime.
Behe and bugs: Genesis of a Creationist canard? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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By the time excavation began in August 1998, our team included researchers from Kazakhstan, France, Italy, Belgium, and Russia working in fields as varied as geomorphology, paleobotany, and dendrochronology.
Scythian Steeds 2002
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That has stretched to incorporate an interest in paleobotany at one end of the spectrum and art history at the other.
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I wrote about goings-on in ichthyology, herpetology, four different archaeology departments, a Lepidoptera center and of course, vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology - oh, and ornithology, palynology and paleobotany too!
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