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ZOOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals

Synonyms:

animal scientist; zoologist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

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

bug-hunter; bugologist; entomologist (a zoologist who studies insects)

ethologist (a zoologist who studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats)

herpetologist (a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians)

ichthyologist (a zoologist who studies fishes)

malacologist (a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks)

mammalogist (one skilled in the study of mammals)

bird watcher; ornithologist (a zoologist who studies birds)

protozoologist (a zoologist who studies protozoans)

Instance hyponyms:

Frisch; Karl von Frisch (Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982))

Goodall; Jane Goodall (English zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild (born in 1934))

Alfred Charles Kinsey; Kinsey (United States zoologist best known for his interview studies of sexual behavior (1894-1956))

Konrad Lorenz; Konrad Zacharias Lorenz; Lorenz (Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989))

Nikolaas Tinbergen; Tinbergen (Dutch zoologist who showed that much animal behavior is innate and stereotyped (1907-1988))

Derivation:

zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

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