English for Beginners Practical English Travel English Telephone English Banking English Accounting English Dictionary
Online English learning Courses
    courses   dictionary
Double-click any word on the page to look it up in the dictionary.

Audio English.net » Dictionary » N » Nativeness ... Naturopathy

NATURAL SCIENTIST

Pronunciation (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural scientist mean? 

NATURAL SCIENTIST (noun)
  The noun NATURAL SCIENTIST has 1 sense:

1. a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)

  Familiarity information: NATURAL SCIENTIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NATURAL SCIENTIST (noun)


Sense 1natural scientist [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

natural scientist; naturalist

Hypernyms ("natural scientist" is a kind of...):

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Instance hyponyms:

Agassiz; Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; Louis Agassiz (United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873))

Jan Swammerdam; Swammerdam (Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680))

Georg Wilhelm Steller; Steller (German naturalist (1709-1746))

Lorenz Oken; Lorenz Okenfuss; Oken; Okenfuss (German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living 'infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851))

John Muir; Muir (United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914))

Chevalier de Lamarck; Jean Baptiste de Lamarck; Lamarck (French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829))

Baron Alexander von Humboldt; Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt; Humboldt (German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859))

Hudson; W. H. Hudson; William Henry Hudson (English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922))

Gesner; Konrad von Gesner (Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565))

Charles Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin; Darwin (English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882))

Baron Georges Cuvier; Cuvier; Georges Cuvier; Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier (French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832))

Andrews; Roy Chapman Andrews (United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960))

Alfred Russel Wallace; Wallace (English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913))


 Learn English with... Proverbs of the week 
"You can't teach grandma to suck eggs." (English proverb)

"When jobless, keep rattling the door." (Albanian proverb)

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." (Arabic proverb)

"May problems with neighbors last only as long as snow in March." (Corsican proverb)

 NATURAL SCIENTIST: related words searches 

 Related FAQs: 

Page delivered in 0.0279 seconds




AudioEnglish Definitions... Just One Click Away!
Now you can lookup any word in our dictionary, right from the search box in your browser! Click here to add the AudioEnglish.net dictionary to your list of search providers.

Dictionary: go up
Dictionary: go down


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Other popular searches:






Add to favorites