MICROSCOPIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microscopist mean? 

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

1. a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROSCOPIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Instance hyponyms:

Anton van Leeuwenhoek; Anton van Leuwenhoek; Leeuwenhoek; Leuwenhoek (Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723))

Jan Swammerdam; Swammerdam (Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680))

Derivation:

microscopy (research with the use of microscopes)