Dictionary entry details
• BIOLOGIST (noun)
Meaning:
(biology) a scientist who studies living organisms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
biologist; life scientist
Hypernyms ("biologist" is a kind of...):
man of science; scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biologist"):
bacteriologist (a biologist who studies bacteria)
animal scientist; zoologist (a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals)
vivisectionist (a biologist who cuts open live animals for research)
systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist (a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior)
sociobiologist (a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior)
physiologist (a biologist specializing in physiology)
neurobiologist (a specialist in neurobiology)
natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))
molecular biologist (a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life)
botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)
cytologist (a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells)
ecologist (a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment)
geneticist (a biologist who specializes in genetics)
microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)
Instance hyponyms:
Morgan; Thomas Hunt Morgan (United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945))
Kendrew; Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917))
Huxley; Thomas Henry Huxley; Thomas Huxley (English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895))
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel; Haeckel (German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919))
Delbruck; Max Delbruck (United States biologist (born in Germany) who studied how viruses infect living cells (1906-1981))
Carson; Rachel Carson; Rachel Louise Carson (United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964))
Alexis Carrel; Carrel (French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944))
Beadle; George Beadle; George Wells Beadle (United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989))
Louis Pasteur; Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))
