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单词 palaeobotany
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Definition of palaeobotany in English:

palaeobotany

(US paleobotany)
noun ˌpalɪəʊˈbɒtəniˌpeɪlɪəʊˈbɒtəniˌpālēōˈbät(ə)nē
mass noun
  • The study of fossil plants.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The study of paleobotany relies on this preserved material - fossils - as evidence of past life.
    • Her passion for paleobotany was already developing by this time, and after graduating she went to the Botanical Institute in Munich, where she was the only woman among five hundred students.
    • One of the most important aspects of paleobotany is establishing relationships between the organisms that we encounter in the fossil record.
    • By my senior year of high school in 1952, I was fascinated by paleobotany, from the ‘butterfly chasing’ of systematic work to work that intertwines with other geoscience endeavors.
    • The study of fossil plants, palaeobotany, it not only of interest in itself, but can be applied to solving a wide range of biological and geological problems.

Derivatives

  • palaeobotanical

  • adjective ˌpalɪəʊbəˈtanɪk(ə)lˌpeɪlɪəʊbəˈtanɪk(ə)l
    • Unfortunately however, the paleobotanical data cited were misdated, and one hopes that such information does not enter into the world of dogma.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Plant life followed a different route, and the paleobotanical time-eras of Palaeophytic, Mesophytic, and Cenophytic are only approximately equivalent.
      • Recent Late Jurassic paleobotanical data suggest that the large conifers and ginkgoes that formed the bulk of the canopy were both relatively sparse and nutrient poor.
      • The early Carboniferous climate has been deduced from palaeobotanical data and from palaeosols/palaeokarsts.
      • Although based on considerable sedimentological and paleobotanical evidence, contradictory results have been obtained.
  • palaeobotanist

  • noun
    • There is some agreement that both living and extinct cycads were derived from seed ferns, but paleobotanists still debate exactly if, when, and how this happened.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Every paleobotanist working in the Cretaceous or Tertiary will want to have copies of these monographs available for reference.
      • But, without exception, the majority of paleobotanists and vertebrate paleontologists initially rejected these concepts.
      • The shape, pore arrangement, morphology and ultrastructure of sporodermata and exines have proved informative to palaeobotanists and in systematics.
      • The order has attracted much attention from traditional botanists, palaeobotanists and molecular systematists, because of its potential significance for understanding the phylogeny of seed plants.
 
 

Definition of paleobotany in US English:

paleobotany

(British palaeobotany)
nounˌpālēōˈbät(ə)nē
  • The study of fossil plants.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The study of paleobotany relies on this preserved material - fossils - as evidence of past life.
    • One of the most important aspects of paleobotany is establishing relationships between the organisms that we encounter in the fossil record.
    • The study of fossil plants, palaeobotany, it not only of interest in itself, but can be applied to solving a wide range of biological and geological problems.
    • Her passion for paleobotany was already developing by this time, and after graduating she went to the Botanical Institute in Munich, where she was the only woman among five hundred students.
    • By my senior year of high school in 1952, I was fascinated by paleobotany, from the ‘butterfly chasing’ of systematic work to work that intertwines with other geoscience endeavors.
 
 
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