BIOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biologist mean? 

• BIOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun BIOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

  Familiarity information: BIOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

biologist; life scientist

Hypernyms ("biologist" is a kind of...):

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biologist"):

botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)

animal scientist; zoologist (a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals)

vivisectionist (a biologist who cuts open live animals for research)

systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist (a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior)

sociobiologist (a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior)

radiobiologist (a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms)

physiologist (a biologist specializing in physiology)

neurobiologist (a specialist in neurobiology)

natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))

molecular biologist (a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life)

microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)

geneticist (a biologist who specializes in genetics)

ecologist (a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment)

cytologist (a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells)

bacteriologist (a biologist who studies bacteria)

Instance hyponyms:

Beadle; George Beadle; George Wells Beadle (United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989))

Alexis Carrel; Carrel (French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944))

Carson; Rachel Carson; Rachel Louise Carson (United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964))

Delbruck; Max Delbruck (United States biologist (born in Germany) who studied how viruses infect living cells (1906-1981))

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel; Haeckel (German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919))

Huxley; Thomas Henry Huxley; Thomas Huxley (English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895))

Kendrew; Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917))

Morgan; Thomas Hunt Morgan (United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945))

Louis Pasteur; Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))

Derivation:

biology (the science that studies living organisms)

biology (characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms)

 Context examples 

However, a key step in the life of the embryo – gastrulation, described by the eminent biologist Lewis Wolpert as “truly the most important time in your life” – was missing.

(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)

The biologists found that the secret to the birds' perching versatility is in their grip.

(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)

No two were exactly the same, explained molecular biologist Danielle G. Lemay at the ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center in Davis, California.

(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Researchers used a method of identifying resistance genes that could be used broadly, according to the team's leader, Mark Guiltinan, a plant molecular biologist at Penn State.

(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)

Plant biologists at University of California, Davis have discovered how sunflowers use their internal circadian "clocks," acting on growth hormones, to follow the sun during the day as they grow.

(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)

Working with atmospheric scientists, biologists demonstrated that the combination of data yielded robust migration timing indexes.

(Seasonality of bird migration responds to environmental cues, NSF)

A set or series of interactions, often forming a network, which biologists have found useful to group together for organizational, historic, biophysical, or other reasons.

(Pathway, NCI Thesaurus)

A major conference to be held at the Vatican is bringing together prominent biologists, ecologists and economists as part of the Biological Extinction conference in a bid to halt the mass extinction.

(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The chemicals produced from these interactions generated the building blocks of RNA, the close relative of DNA which most biologists believe was the first molecule of life to carry information.

(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)

The biologists discovered that Savannah monitor lizards have lung structures that are a hybrid system of bird and mammal lungs.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)