Crossword clues for taxonomist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taxonomist \Tax*on"o*mist\ (t[a^]ks*[o^]n"[-o]*m[i^]st), n. One skilled in taxonomy.
Wiktionary
n. (context taxonomy English) Someone whose profession is alpha taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.
WordNet
n. a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior [syn: taxonomer, systematist]
Usage examples of "taxonomist".
It takes eight to ten years to train a taxonomist, but none are coming along in Africa.
Leng had, after all, been a taxonomist, collector, and member of the Lyceum.
Carolus, 1707-78, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, considered the founder of the binomial system of nomenclature and the originator of modern scientific classification of plants and animals.
So even when he tried to do respectable science, and become a taxonomist, transmutation insisted in getting in on the act.
There were no specialized taxonomists in the whole of Africa, he told me.
Some taxonomists employ further subdivisions: tribe, suborder, infraorder, parvorder, and more.
By comparing it with the immense Global Inventory database, and using rules of thumb worked out by the best taxonomists, this single trailer could index and place the samples a billion times faster than clunky humans.
From the days of Linnaeus, who did this for biological species in the eighteenth century, onwards, taxonomists have been a quarrelsome lot.
As an ever-increasing number of prospective students were wooed by high-tech careers in biochemistry and genetics, the shortage of classically trained archivists, taxonomists, and systematists big-picture researchers was in danger of undermining the entire foundation of biological science.
This is the affliction that once caused us to place the earth at the center of the universe, and it still infects some taxonomists who wish to award mankind its own exclusive genus.
Botanists and anthropologists have repeatedly found that all over the world hunter-gatherer peoples have distinguished the various plant species with the precision of western taxonomists.
No cladist actually draws flesh and blood ancestors on family trees, though traditional evolutionary taxonomists sometimes do.
In Chapter 4 we saw that an Argentinian taxonomist had pronounced the litopterns ancestral to true horses, whereas they are now thought to be convergent on true horses.
Linnaeus, Carolus, 1707-78, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, considered the founder of the binomial system of nomenclature and the originator of modern scientific classification of plants and animals.