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Micropaleontology Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ology

Micropaleontology has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the paleontology of microfossils

2

The branch of paleontology dealing with the fossilized microscopic organic remains (microfossils) of the geologic past; including their structure, biology, relationships and distribution.

See Also
remains distribution organic microscopic paleontology fossilized biology microfossil
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
paleontology
Rhyming Words
dogy fogy bogy logy pogy ology loogy elogy boogy alogy agogy dilogy oölogy oology eulogy perogy urology geology analogy trilogy
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