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 Definitions of leakey  [ˈli ki]  

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Definition of 'leakey' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett, 1903–72, British anthropologist.

2.  Leakey
Mary (Douglas), 1913–96, British anthropologist (wife of Louis Leakey).

3.  Leakey
their son, Richard (Erskine Frere), born 1944, Kenyan anthropologist.


Definition of 'leakey' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey
English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)

2. (noun) Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey
English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)

3. (noun) Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)



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