单词 | Thomas Huxley |
释义 | Thomas Huxley (once / 193760 pages) n WORD FAMILY Thomas Huxley USAGE EXAMPLESOn this now famous occasion, Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, took on ‘Darwin’s bulldog’, Thomas Huxley. Salon(Aug 15, 2015) This led the 19th century biologist Thomas Huxley to declare that pyrosomes shine “like white hot cylinders in the water.” New York Times(Aug 14, 2014) Among the defenders of Darwin's ideas, Thomas Huxley was perhaps the most fervent and determined, for which he earned the nickname "Darwin's bulldog." Scientific American(Aug 16, 2013) n English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895) Syn|Exp Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley biologist, life scientist (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms |
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