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

3 senses of leakey

Sense 1
Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey -- (English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944))
       INSTANCE OF=> paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist -- (a specialist in paleontology)
       INSTANCE OF=> anthropologist -- (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

Sense 2
Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey -- (English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996))
       INSTANCE OF=> paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist -- (a specialist in paleontology)
       INSTANCE OF=> anthropologist -- (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

Sense 3
Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey -- (English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972))
       INSTANCE OF=> paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist -- (a specialist in paleontology)
       INSTANCE OF=> anthropologist -- (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)