Oligochaetologist
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A scientist dedicated to the study of earthworms.
"An ornithologist can simply meander through a forest and look up; an oligochaetologist must keep an ear to the ground, so to speak, and try to divine the ideal earthworm habitat."
Example
More examples"An ornithologist can simply meander through a forest and look up; an oligochaetologist must keep an ear to the ground, so to speak, and try to divine the ideal earthworm habitat."
Etymology
From oligochaetology + -ist, from Oligochaeta, the taxonomic class of earthworms.
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