Taxonomist

noun

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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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systematisttaxonomer

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"The stages of psychosexual development—oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital—turn out to be one big Freudian slip, betraying severe anal retention on the part of the taxonomist."

Etymology

From taxonomy + -ist.

Related phrases

evolutionary taxonomistnumerical taxonomistalpha taxonomy

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