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Taxonomist

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

    "Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all."

  2. 2
    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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From taxonomy + -ist.

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