Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun davys

1 sense of davys

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Davys, John Davys, Davis, John Davis -- (English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605))
       INSTANCE OF=> navigator -- (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun davy

1 sense of davy

Sense 1
Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy -- (English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829))
       INSTANCE OF=> chemist -- (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)