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biologist
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Word definitions for biologist in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1813, from biology + -ist . Earliest use is in reference to human life. In modern scientific sense, by 1874.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms [syn: life scientist ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biologist \Bi*ol"o*gist\, n. A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A biologist , or biological scientist , is a scientist who studies living organisms , often in the context of their environment. Biologists involved in fundamental research attempt to explore and further explain the underlying mechanisms that govern the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE evolutionary ▪ Secondly, evolutionary biologists have tested their theories by searching for expected patterns of behaviour across different human cultures. ▪ Again and again in recent years evolutionary biologists ...
Usage examples of biologist.
Henry Ogden, the fifty-year-old Harvard biologist, looked surprised to find her there.
The biologist grabbed a flashlight from a stack near the door, flicked it on, and aimed past the cluttered entrance hall to the dark passages beyond.
It snapped blindly at the biologist, coming within inches of his fingers.
The biologist would occasionally rub at the frosted glass of a tank with the cuff of his sleeve, peer inside, and mutter.
Matt finally realized the tension wearing at the biologist, close to breaking him.
The biologist nodded his head and muttered that it was hardly right to call a spaceship after a star that had perished.
Together with them two astronomers, the geologist, biologist, physician and four engineers departed into temporary forgetful-ness.
Those present obeyed him in silence and Nisa gave the biologist a smile, triumphant, despite the hopelessness of the moment.
The biologist, the geologist and the physician prepared a reconnaissance robot, the mechanics adjusted the landing locators and searchlights and got ready a rocket satellite that would transmit a message to Earth.
The irrepressible biologist, however, had managed to take a sample of the, air.
The commander and the biologist sat at her feet on the round ledge formed by the base of the turret.
At the base of the feelers the biologist noticed huge bladders that glowed inside and seemed to be transmitting the star-like flashes along them.
Nisa leaned towards the biologist, who sat beside her deep in thought, carried away in his mind to the far distant planet that was his, to that dear planet where nature had been harnessed by man.
The biologist had adapted an infrared screen and could follow the movements of the jelly-fish.
The biologist held his hand out towards the switch but Kay Bear held it back.