Meaning

1 senses
  1. Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.

    Taxonom

    таксономи́стtaksonomíst

More definitions
  • a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The biologist classifies the newly found species in its own genus, whereas other taxonomists want to put it into an established genus.

    ruБиолог классифицирует вновь открытый вид в новый род, в то время как другие систематики желают поместить его в уже установленный род. — corvard

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
taxon maker:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
taxon maker:

Origin

From taxonomy + -ist.

From taxonomy + -ist.

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Forms

plural: taxonomists
Singulartaxonomist
Pluraltaxonomists

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior:taxonomersystematist

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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