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TAXONOMER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior

Synonyms:

systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist

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Nouns denoting people

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

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

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

lumper (a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics)

divider; splitter (a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics)

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