Systematist

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A biologist who studies systematics.

    "Hence I look at individual differences, though of small interest to the systematist, as of high importance for us, as being the first step towards such slight varieties as are barely thought worth recording in works on natural history."

  2. 2
    an organizer who puts things in order wordnet
  3. 3
    A follower of systematism; one who reduces things to a system.
  4. 4
    a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior wordnet

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"Hence I look at individual differences, though of small interest to the systematist, as of high importance for us, as being the first step towards such slight varieties as are barely thought worth recording in works on natural history."

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