Ichthyologist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes.

    "Meanwhile, the other two main actors, Richard Dreyfuss as boyish ichthyologist Hooper and Robert Shaw as grizzled shark-hunter Quint, further added to the deepening of the dramatis personae by the paradoxical boon that they loathed each other."

  2. 2
    a zoologist who studies fishes wordnet

Synonyms

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animal physiologistanthropologistbiologistconchologistecologistentomologist

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"Meanwhile, the other two main actors, Richard Dreyfuss as boyish ichthyologist Hooper and Robert Shaw as grizzled shark-hunter Quint, further added to the deepening of the dramatis personae by the paradoxical boon that they loathed each other."

Etymology

From ichthyology + -ist.

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