zoophytologist, n.

zoophytologist
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Revised 2017

# zoophytologistnoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun zoophytologist mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zoophytologist. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### Where does the noun zoophytologist come from?

Earliest known use

1830s

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

1. zoophysiology, n. 1803–
2. zoophytal, adj. 1756–
3. zoophyte, n. 1606–
4. zoophytic, adj. 1808–
5. zoophytical, adj. 1779–
6. zoophytish, adj. 1854–80
7. zoophytist, n. 1814–62
8. zoophytography, n. 1735–1905
9. zoophytoid, adj. 1854–83
10. zoophytological, adj. 1823–
11. zoophytologist, n.1835–
12. zoophytology, n. 1815–
13. zoophyton, n. 1601–
14. zooplankter, n. 1935–
15. zooplanktivore, n. 1972–
16. zooplanktivorous, adj. 1971–
17. zooplankton, n. 1897–
18. zooplanktonic, adj. 1912–
19. zooplastic, adj. a1855–
20. zoopraxinoscope, n. 1889–
21. zoopraxiscope, n. 1881–

## Meaning & use

Now rare.

1. 1835–
   An expert or specialist in zoophytology.
   Stressed as ˌzoophyˈtologist.
   1. 1835

      > Ellis, the celebrated zoophytologist and a contemporary of Hunter.

      J. F. Palmer in J. Hunter, Works vol. III. 194
   2. 1851–2

      > The modern Zoophytologist.

      Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy & Physiology vol. IV. 1307/1
   3. 1963

      > Sir Douglas Kennedy..mathematician and zoophytologist.

      Times Literary Supplement 19 July 530/1
   4. 2012

      > Charting the biosphere is enormously complex, yet necessary expertise can be found through partnerships..from agrostologists to zoophytologists.

      Space Daily (Nexis) 18 April
   life sciences
   1. zoophytist 1814–62
      = zoophytologist, n.
   2. zoophytologist 1835–
      An expert or specialist in zoophytology.
   3. parasitologist 1862–
      A person who studies parasites; a specialist in parasitology.
   4. pathobiologist 1888
      A person who studies pathogenic organisms. Obsolete. rare.
   5. planktologist 1891–
      An expert in or student of planktology.
   6. protistologist 1907–
      An expert in or student of protistology.
   7. planktonologist 1913–
      = planktologist, n.
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Originally published as part of the entry for zoophytology, n.

zoophytology, n. was revised in June 2017.