chevalier de lamarck

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsLamarckJean Baptiste de Lamarck

   Broadernaturalist

Questions about chevalier de lamarck

What does chevalier de lamarck mean?

chevalier de lamarck means "French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)".

What is another word for chevalier de lamarck?

Close synonyms include Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de Lamarck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chevalier de lamarck a common word?

chevalier de lamarck is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.