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noun
Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
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Synonyms: taxologist, taxologer, taxonomer
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: taxonomer, systematist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: biologist, life scientist
Narrower terms: lumper, splitter, divider
History
From taxonomy + -ist.
Across languages
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
