Definition of Mantell

1. Noun. English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852).

Exact synonyms: Gideon Algernon Mantell
Generic synonyms: Geologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mantell

Manson's schistosomiasis
Mansonella demarquayi
Mansonella ozzardi
Mansonella perstans
Mansonella streptocerca
Mansonella tucumana
Mansonia
Mansonite
Mansonites
Mansonoides
Manta birostris
Mantegna
Mantegnesque
Manteidae
Mantel-Haenszel test
Mantell
Manteodea
Mantidae
Mantinea
Mantinean
Mantineans
Mantineia
Mantis religioso
Mantispidae
Mantle
Mantophasmatodea
Mantoux pit
Mantoux test
Mantoykas
Mantua

Literary usage of Mantell

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

1. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"Sir," said the lady, " put not on you this mantell till ye have seene more, ... this mantell that ye have brought me, I will see it upon you. ..."

2. Life of Benjamin Silliman, M D., LL., D.: Late Professor of Chemistry by George Park Fisher (1866)
"Dr. mantell on the Vicissitudes of Fortune among English Families ; on Tariffs. ... Dr. mantell on the Duke of "Wellington; on Agassiz's Visit to him; ..."

3. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1901)
"One Charles mantell, whom he had met casually in Reading, called at his boarding place in Philadelphia and asked for the loan of some money. ..."

4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1849)
"To the accuracy of the figure of the internal parts of a Rotalia, from the chalk published by Dr. mantell (Phil. Trans, for 1846, plate xxi., fig. 10. ..."

5. Sixty Years of the Theater: An Old Critic's Memories by John Ranken Towse (1916)
"FISKE, ROSE COGHLAN, AND OTHERS THE names of Sothern and Marlowe naturally suggest that of Robert mantell, a fellow laborer in the field of Shakespearean ..."

6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1827)
"M. mantell is already advantageously known to geologists, by his interesting ... Sussex, Mr mantell informs us, is composed of portions of all the secondary ..."

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