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HERPETOLOGIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does herpetologist mean?
• HERPETOLOGIST (noun)
The noun HERPETOLOGIST has 1 sense:
1. a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians
Familiarity information: HERPETOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("herpetologist" is a kind of...):
animal scientist; zoologist (a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals)
Derivation:
herpetology (the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians)
Context examples
Eminent herpetologist and co-author of the study Romulus Whitaker from the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology, Tamil Nadu state, tells that India needs either region-specific antivenom or antivenom made with venoms pooled from different regions and from the species not yet used in antivenom production.”
(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)
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