Definitions for Lyell

Lyell Ly·ell

Spelling: [lahy-uh l]
IPA: /ˈlaɪ əl/

Lyell is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Lyell (ellly).

Definitions for Lyell

noun

  1. Sir Charles, 1797–1875, English geologist.
  2. Mount, a mountain in E central California, in Yosemite National Park, in the Sierra Nevada. 13,114 feet (3997 meters).
  3. Also, Lyall. a mountain on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, in the Rocky Mountains. 11,520 feet (3511 meters).

Examples for Lyell

I saw more of Lyell than of any other man, both before and after my marriage.

In fact, no one was better aware of this than Lyell himself.

These particulars are gathered from the text-books of Lyell and Geikie.

Lyell in his letter remarked that you seemed to him as if you were overworked.

They have been wrought into their present shape by the wind-blown sand of Lyell's Bay.

I do not think Lyell will be nearly so much annoyed as you expect.

He was the forerunner of Lyell and of the uniformitarian school of geologists.

No one has read it, except Lyell, with whom I have had much correspondence.

They will be "proved" as well as Moses or Darwin or Lyell ever "proved" anything.

Lyell expressly denied that this is true of the animal and plant world.

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