Embryologist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An expert or specialist in embryology
  2. 2
    a physician who specializes in embryology wordnet

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"Five years ago, Dr. Ian Wilmut, a Scottish embryologist was the first to clone a mammal, a Finn Dorcet lamb named Dolly. Since then four more species of mammals have been cloned: goats, pigs, mice and cows."

Etymology

From embryology + -ist.

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