Definition of Chevalier de Lamarck

1. Noun. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829).

Exact synonyms: Jean Baptiste De Lamarck, Lamarck
Generic synonyms: Natural Scientist, Naturalist
Derivative terms: Lamarckian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevalier De Lamarck

Cheshire
Cheshire cat
Cheshire cheese
Cheshvan
Chessy copper
Chester
Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Nimitz
Chester William Nimitz
Chesterfield
Chesterton
Chet
Chevalier-Jackson dilator
Chevalier de Bayard
Chevalier de Lamarck (current term)
Cheviot
Chevrel phase
Chevrel phases
Chevrolet
Chevrolets
Chevy
Chewa
Chewas
Chewbacca
Chewbacca Defense
Chewbacca Defenses
Chewie
Cheyenne
Cheyne-Stokes psychosis

Literary usage of Chevalier de Lamarck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was born August 1, 1744, at Bazentin-le-Petit, Department of the Somme, near Longueval. ..."

2. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work by Alpheus Spring Packard (1901)
"The family of Lamarck, as stated by H. Masson,* notwithstanding his northern and almost Germanic name of Chevalier de Lamarck, originated in the southwest ..."

3. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"LAMARCK JEAN BAPTISTE PIERRE ANTOINE DE MONET, Chevalier de Lamarck, was born at Bazentin, France, August 1, 1744. He was educated at the college of the ..."

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