Explore Cuvier through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like naturalist. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Cuvier in a sentence
Cuvier meaning
Fermenting room of a winery
Synonyms of Cuvier
Using Cuvier
- The main meaning on this page is: Fermenting room of a winery
- Useful related words include: georges cuvier, baron georges cuvier, naturalist, natural scientist.
Context around Cuvier
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cuvier
- In this selection, "cuvier" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, suggestion, attack, georges, agreed, became and deploring stand out and add context to how "cuvier" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and meeting cuvier in paris and article on cuvier. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cuvier" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cuvier
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Charles Alexandre Lesueur was a student of Cuvier. (8 words)
This causes beaked whales, specifically the Cuvier species, to beach. (10 words)
Cuvier later admitted he had acted in haste and was mistaken. (11 words)
They were magnificently illustrated, chiefly by Joseph Dinkel. citation In gathering materials for this work Agassiz visited the principal museums in Europe, and meeting Cuvier in Paris, he received much encouragement and assistance from him. (35 words)
In 1809 Cuvier published a somewhat longer description, in which he named the animal a "ptero-dactyle" and refuted a hypothesis by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that it would have been a shore bird. (33 words)
The name Sauria was coined by James Macartney (1802); James Macartney: Table III in: George Cuvier (1802) "Lectures on Comparative Anatomy" (translated by William Ross under the inspection of James Macartney). (31 words)
Example sentences (14)
Cuvier agreed with this interpretation, and at Hermann's suggestion, Cuvier became the first to publish these ideas in December 1800 in a very short description.
In January 1811, von Sömmerring wrote a letter to Cuvier deploring the fact that he had only recently been informed of Cuvier's request for information.
Killer whales attack Cuvier's beaked whale in Bremer Canyon bloodbath off Western Australia.
This causes beaked whales, specifically the Cuvier species, to beach.
Charles Alexandre Lesueur was a student of Cuvier.
Cuvier asked von Moll to study the fossil but was informed it could not be found.
Cuvier later admitted he had acted in haste and was mistaken.
Cuvier's accusation had resulted in a special meeting of the Geological Society earlier in 1824, which, after some debate, had concluded the skeleton was legitimate.
Cuvier's observations of fossil bones convinced him that they did not originate in extant animals.
Georges Cuvier strongly disputed such ideas, holding that unrelated, fixed species showed similarities that reflected a design for functional needs.
In 1809 Cuvier published a somewhat longer description, in which he named the animal a "ptero-dactyle" and refuted a hypothesis by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that it would have been a shore bird.
See especially chapters VI and VII of citation See also the discussion of these principles in the Wikipedia article on Cuvier.
The name Sauria was coined by James Macartney (1802); James Macartney: Table III in: George Cuvier (1802) "Lectures on Comparative Anatomy" (translated by William Ross under the inspection of James Macartney).
They were magnificently illustrated, chiefly by Joseph Dinkel. citation In gathering materials for this work Agassiz visited the principal museums in Europe, and meeting Cuvier in Paris, he received much encouragement and assistance from him.