Cuvier

American  

[kyoo-vee-ey, koov-yey, ky-vyey] / ˈkyu viˌeɪ, kuvˈyeɪ, küˈvyeɪ /

noun

1. Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Baron, 1769–1832, French naturalist: pioneer in the fields of paleontology and comparative anatomy.

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Cuvier British  

/ kyvje, ˈkjuːvɪeɪ /

noun

1. Georges ( Jean-Leopold-Nicolas-Frédéric ) (ʒɔrʒ), Baron. 1769–1832, French zoologist and statesman; founder of the sciences of comparative anatomy and palaeontology

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Cuvier Scientific  

/ kyo̅o̅′vē-ā′ /

1. French anatomist who is considered the founder of comparative anatomy. He originated a system of zoological classification that grouped animals according to the structures of their skeletons and organs. Cuvier extended his system to fossils; his reconstructions of the way extinct animals looked, based on their skeletal remains, greatly advanced the science of paleontology.

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Example Sentences

It wasn't until Georges Cuvier, a French paleontologist, came along that it was correctly recognized as a flying reptile.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2023

Known as the father of vertebrate paleontology, Cuvier made significant contributions to the study of ancient life and taught at Paris’s Museum of Natural History.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier's novel inspired by Anning, shows how her finds drew the attention of renowned scientists such as geologist Charles Lyell and naturalist Georges Cuvier.

From Nature • Dec. 6, 2016

That said, while Cuvier could explain extinction, he couldn’t explain how new species came to life.

From Forbes • Jun. 29, 2015

Cuvier was already dazzling people with his genius for taking heaps of disarticulated bones and whipping them into shapely forms.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson