HOW TO PRONOUNCE
agassiz
/əˈɡæsɪz/
Press play to hear how to pronounce agassiz.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does agassiz mean?
proper noun
- Ellipsis of Lake Agassiz.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/əˈɡæsɪz/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
I have often thought that with education he might have made a Darwin or an Agassiz.
What I meant when I wrote to Agassiz to thank him for a bundle of his publications, was exactly what you suppose.
More book examples (3)
So in the twenty-first century some avatar of M. Figuier will perhaps describe the late professor Agassiz as the author of the Darwinian theory.
In this respect a new species has a multiple origin, but this in a sense very different from that which was upheld by L. Agassiz.
Linnaeus in the second half of the eighteenth century, Cuvier in the first half, and Agassiz in the second half of the nineteenth--all made the same effort.