There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zoophytologist. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
The earliest known use of the noun zoophytologist is in the 1830s.
OED's earliest evidence for zoophytologist is from 1835, in the writing of James Frederick Palmer, businessman and politician in Australia.
Nearby entries
- zoophysiology, n.1803–
- zoophytal, adj.1756–
- zoophyte, n.1606–
- zoophytic, adj.1808–
- zoophytical, adj.1779–
- zoophytish, adj.1854–80
- zoophytist, n.1814–62
- zoophytography, n.1735–1905
- zoophytoid, adj.1854–83
- zoophytological, adj.1823–
- zoophytologist, n.1835–
- zoophytology, n.1815–
- zoophyton, n.1601–
- zooplankter, n.1935–
- zooplanktivore, n.1972–
- zooplanktivorous, adj.1971–
- zooplankton, n.1897–
- zooplanktonic, adj.1912–
- zooplastic, adj.a1855–
- zoopraxinoscope, n.1889–
- zoopraxiscope, n.1881–
1835–
An expert or specialist in zoophytology.
Stressed as ˌzoophyˈtologist.
1835
Ellis, the celebrated zoophytologist and a contemporary of Hunter.
J. F. Palmer in J. Hunter, Works vol. III. 194
1851–2
The modern Zoophytologist.
Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy & Physiology vol. IV. 1307/1
1963
Sir Douglas Kennedy..mathematician and zoophytologist.
Times Literary Supplement 19 July 530/1
2012
Charting the biosphere is enormously complex, yet necessary expertise can be found through partnerships..from agrostologists to zoophytologists.
Space Daily (Nexis) 18 April
An expert or specialist in zoophytology.
A person who studies parasites; a specialist in parasitology.
A person who studies pathogenic organisms. Obsolete. rare.
An expert in or student of planktology.
An expert in or student of protistology.
Originally published as part of the entry for zoophytology, n.
zoophytology, n. was revised in June 2017.
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