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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Scopes trial
    n 1: 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