paleobiology
noun
paleobiology is a noun meaning “The branch of biology or paleontology concerned with the study of fossils of plants and animals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-E-O-B-I-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does paleobiology mean?
noun
- 1
The branch of biology or paleontology concerned with the study of fossils of plants and animals
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paleobiology
- palaeobiology
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paleobiology?
Paleobiology appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Paleobiology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense branch of study:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Paläobiologie |
| Portuguese | paleobiologia |
| Spanish | paleobiología |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does paleobiology come from?
From paleo- + biology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).