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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. 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);
[syn: Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey]

2. English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996);
[syn: Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey]

3. English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972);
[syn: Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Leakey n 1: 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) [syn: Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey] 2: English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996) [syn: Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey] 3: English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972) [syn: Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey]