ROGER BACON as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation
   • first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
   Synonym(s)
   • Bacon (what does Bacon mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Roger Bacon is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • monk (what does monk mean?)
   • monastic (what does monastic mean?)
   • scientist (what does scientist mean?)
   • man of science (what does man of science mean?)