taxonomist
English
Noun
taxonomist (plural taxonomists)
- (taxonomy) Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
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Derived terms
- chemotaxonomist
- cytotaxonomist
- evolutionary taxonomist
- numerical taxonomist