LIFE SCIENTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does life scientist mean? 

• LIFE SCIENTIST (noun)
  The noun LIFE SCIENTIST has 1 sense:

1. (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

  Familiarity information: LIFE SCIENTIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIFE SCIENTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

biologist; life scientist

Hypernyms ("life scientist" 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 "life scientist"):

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:

life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)

 Context examples 

The BioCarta web site serves as an interactive web-based resource for life scientists.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)