"Cuvierian" meaning in English

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          "word": "Cuvierian duct"
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          "word": "Cuvierian organ"
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          "word": "Cuvierian tubule"
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          "ref": "1875 September, “Editor's Table: “Knox the Incomparable””, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 7, page 623",
          "text": "Dr. Knox took the ground, bold ground half a century ago, of the vast antiquity of man, and, though holding to the Cuvierean view of the immutability of species, he shrank from no opprobrium of beliefs denounced at that time as spurious science, […]",
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        "Of or relating to Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French naturalist and zoologist."
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          "word": "Cuvierean"
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      "word": "Cuvierian duct"
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