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MICROBIOLOGIST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in microbiology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("microbiologist" is a kind of...):

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "microbiologist"):

virologist (a specialist in virology)

Instance hyponyms:

Albert Bruce Sabin; Albert Sabin; Sabin (United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906))

Derivation:

microbiology (the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans)

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