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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Buf•fon (by fôn′),USA pronunciation n. Georges Louis Le•clerc (zhôrzh lwē lə kler′),USA pronunciation Comte de, 1707–88, French naturalist.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Buffon /French: byfɔ̃/ n - Georges Louis Leclerc (ʒɔrʒ lwi ləklɛr), Comte de. 1707–88, French encyclopedist of natural history; principal author of Histoire naturelle (36 vols., 1749–89), containing the Époques de la nature (1777), which foreshadowed later theories of evolution
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