Associations to the word «Cuvier»

Wiktionary

CUVIER, adjective. Cuvier (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Cuvier's ..."
CUVIER, noun. (oenology) Fermenting room of a winery

Dictionary definition

CUVIER, noun. French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin