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agassiz |
agassiz | (n) United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873), Syn. Louis Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz |
desert tortoise | (n) burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates, Syn. Gopherus agassizii |