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taxonomist

🇬🇧 UK/tæk'sɔnәmist/🇺🇸 US
GREC2

Definitions

n.

A scientist who specializes in classifying organisms or other things into ordered groups.

分类学家

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
taxarrange, order, assess
+
oconnector
+
nomname
+
istone who practices, believer in
=taxonomist

Common Collocations

  • 1.plant taxonomist植物分类学家
  • 2.marine taxonomist海洋分类学家
  • 3.[trained taxonomist]专业分类学家
  • 4.taxonomist's classification分类学家的分类体系

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The taxonomist spent years cataloguing newly discovered species in the Amazon rainforest.

  • 2.

    As a taxonomist, she argued that the two populations were distinct enough to be separate species.

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