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English noun: Scopes trial

1. Scopes trial (act) a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed


Broader (hypernym)trial


Domain categoryevolution, jurisprudence, law, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny









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