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Definition of Agassiz
1. Noun. United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873).
Generic synonyms: Natural Scientist, Naturalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agassiz
Literary usage of Agassiz
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Genera of Fishes ...: A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1917)
"Microps agassiz, II, io; type MICROPS FURCATUS agassiz. Perhaps not distinct from
... FORMOSUS agassiz. Megalurus agassiz, II, 13 ; type MEGALURUS ..."
2. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"That training was not lost upon agassiz. Although -i adage iu his last published
article, ... Another professor at Munich, from whom agassiz learned much, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"Louis agassiz: His Life and Work; by Chas. Frederick Holder, MD1 In this volume
we have an appreciative history of agassiz, in which the characteristics of ..."
4. Americans by Adoption: Brief Biographies of Great Citizens Born in Foreign Lands by Joseph Husband (1920)
"Lover of nature, and particularly of the living things which have for hundreds
of thousands of years inhabited the earth, Louis agassiz bore a name that ..."
5. Leading American Men of Science by David Starr Jordan (1910)
"So wrote young agassiz to his father on the threshold of his career. ... It is
a pleasure to have known Louis agassiz, to have seen his genial smile, ..."
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