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Revised 2017

zoologistnoun

  1. 1663–
    A person who studies animals; an expert or specialist in zoology.
    1. 1663
      The..liberty of making those Experiments in live Beasts..may enable a Zoologist..to determine divers Pathologicall difficulties.
      R. Boyle, Some Considerations Usefulnesse Experimental Natural Philosophy ii. ii. 46
    2. 1670
      Nature having, as Zoologists teach us, furnished Ducks and other water-Fowl with a peculiar structure of some vessels about the heart.
      R. Boyle in Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society) vol. 5 2011
    3. 1752
      This..has been described..under the name of the Mus Africanus Hayopolin dictus. Most of the zoologists have omitted it.
      J. Hill, General Natural History vol. III. 531
    4. 1773
      Nor have I seen any thing that interested me, as a Zoologist, except an Otter.
      S. Johnson, Letter 21 September (1992) vol. II. 78
    5. 1839
      The Seladang is supposed by some zoologists to be identical with the Tapir.
      T. J. Newbold, Political & Statistical Account Straits of Malacca vol. I. vii. 435
    6. 1870
      The proverb says, ‘Ex pede Herculem’; and we have actual experience how the practised zoologist can build up some intricate organization from the sight of its smallest bone.
      J. H. Newman, Essay Grammar of Assent ii. viii. 253
    7. 1910
      These are the reasons why zoologists and naturalists are anxious to save the whale.
      Weekly Irish Times 8 October 7/4
    8. 1984
      There were often slight differences between them, which interested the zoologists.
      B. Heinrich, In Patch of Fireweed iii. 44
    9. 2015
      McGavin, a distinguished zoologist..is devoted to anything that creeps and crawls.
      Times 2 June

zoologist, n. was revised in June 2017.

zoologist, n. was last modified in July 2023.