biologist
English
Etymology
From biology + -ist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Audio (London, England) (file)
Noun
biologist (plural biologists)
- A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
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Derived terms
- aerobiologist
- agrobiologist
- anthropobiologist
- astrobiologist
- chronobiologist
- cryobiologist
- cytobiologist
- developmental biologist
- electrobiologist
- endocytobiologist
- ethnobiologist
- evolutionary biologist
- exobiologist
- geobiologist
- geomicrobiologist
- glycobiologist
- gnotobiologist
- hydrobiologist
- immunobiologist
- limnobiologist
- macrobiologist
- marine biologist
- microbiologist
- molecular biologist
- nanobiologist
- neurobiologist
- nonbiologist
- palaeobiologist
- paleobiologist
- parabiologist
- pathobiologist
- photobiologist
- phytobiologist
- population biologist
- proverbiologist
- psychobiologist
- radiobiologist
- saprobiologist
- sociobiologist
- xenobiologist
Translations
student of biology; one versed in the science of biology
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