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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The branch of zoology dealing with fossils, and the creatures that were transformed into them uncountable
2. 2
   the study of fossil animals wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

palaeozoology

Etymology

From paleo- + zoology.

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