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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
zoologist
noun
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▪ I'd paint like a zoologist, catching the animals doing things they actually do.
▪ In the 1970s zoologists began to investigate these patterns to try to find out what determined a species' mating system.
▪ Inevitably I was destined to become a zoologist in later life.
▪ It is written from the point of view of zoologists although it is biochemical in content.
▪ Naturalists, zoologists, conservationists already knew him well because of his work with the Wildfowl Trust.
▪ Once the zoologists had taken account of the difference in weight, the camels emerged as clear winners.
▪ The implication follows: If a zoologist can deduce which parasite is present, a female roach probably can as well.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zoologist

Zoologist \Zo*["o]l"o*gist\, n. [Cf. F. zoologiste.] One who is well versed in zo["o]logy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
zoologist

1660s, from zoology + -ist.

Wiktionary
zoologist

n. Person who studies zoology.

WordNet
zoologist

n. a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals [syn: animal scientist]

Usage examples of "zoologist".

The First International Congress of Zoologists for Psychological Research into Caudate Amphibians.

There exists an International Society of Cryptozoology, the board of directors of which includes professional biologists, zoologists, and paleontologists from universities and museums around the world.

Botanists have plants whose passionate emotional lives can be monitored with He detectors, anthropologists have surviving ape-men, zoologists have extant dinosaurs, and evolutionary biologists have Biblical literalists snapping at their flanks.

The trip to Boston was to take slides and X-rays to a zoologist there, but served as a needed change for Poly, too.

If you can find out what happened to a Zoologist and Cinema Preservationist named Einar, that would be nice too.

Obliged to dine in hall that evening to fulfil his quota, Jack sat between a terse mathematician and a zoologist called Lascelles who was full of a recent field trip to the Cameroons to study butterflies.

Their behaviour was something that had fascinated mycologists, zoologists, and cell biologists for years.

German zoologist Theodor Schwann, who was one of the founders of the cell theory of life.

The correctness of the above views struck most of the Russian zoologists present, and Syevertsoff, whose work is well known to ornithologists and geographers, supported them and illustrated them by a few more examples.

The Alpine Clubs, the Jagdschutzverein in Germany, which has over 100,000 members--hunters, educated foresters, zoologists, and simple lovers of Nature--and the International Ornithological Society, which includes zoologists, breeders, and simple peasants in Germany, have the same character.

He is affiliated with the American Society of Zoologists, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and the Crustacean Society, among others.

For a time zoologists used family where botanists placed order, to the occasional confusion of nearly everyone.

Zoologists were trying to figure out what sort of creature had laid the chickenlike eggs.

Zoologists were trying to figure out what sort of creature had laid the chickenlike eggs.

The zoologist continued, "Then there're traces of formaldehyde, phenol, fructose, dextrose, cellulose.