Someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

Usage examples of explorer.

They sat and lay on the earth, grass tickling their chins and bellies, the occasional six-legged explorer marching gravely up a leg or flank.

French explorer Bourgade la Dardye, and of all those who have ever visited the missions of Paraguay.

Who, says the notable humourist, in allusion to this Book, who can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now capable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pulmonary snips and shreds of leagues dancing on their toes for cold, explorers tell us, and catching breath by good luck, like dogs at bones about a table, on the edge of the Pole?

Come, come, Miss Mandeville, you have the name of a romantic explorer.

In the nineteenth century, according to information collected by his agents, this monstrously heavy bronze piece had been a portable sundial, the property of a fabled English explorer named Strongbow who was said to have been the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the century.

In the huge remaining expanse the penetrometers served as remote sensing stations for regions not yet entered by explorers on the ground.

For the Psychosphere guarded its secrets jealously, and the toll it would exact from unwary explorers might be devastating!

Leur cavalerie se porta immediatement en avant pour explorer les passages et reconnaitre ceux qui pourraient etre libres.

They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist.

Fleetingly, Danae wondered how the early explorers to Shamsheer had ever managed to find the thing.

A pair of Explorers had met some strider scouts, when both sides were checking out the same planet for possible colonization.

I took my stunner from the locker in the Explorer equipment room, the butt felt oddly cold and metallic.

It is useless to add that notwithstanding the wide extent of sea which the explorers could survey, and though the engineer swept the horizon with his glass, no vessel could be found.

Washington plant, Leon Turpin met the deep-space explorer Frank Woodbine, about whom he had heard so much.

Jocelyn Thew, notwithstanding his fine, slim figure, his well-cut clothes and lean, handsome face, carried always with him some nameless, unanalysable air of the man who has played the explorer, who has peered into strange places, who has handled the reins which guide the white horse of life as well as the black horse of death.