Use "defied" in a sentence
1. Heuvelmans was born in Le Havre , France and raised in Belgium , and earned a doctorate of zoology . His doctoral thesis concerned the teeth of the aardvark , which had previously defied classification.
Heuvelmans befasste sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Suche nach verborgenen Tiere n und begründete damit die Kryptozoologie im modernen Sinne.