agassiz

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agassiz - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Agassiz
      n 1: United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied
           fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages
           had occurred in North America (1807-1873) [syn: Agassiz,
           Louis Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz]