TAXONOMIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does taxonomist mean? 

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

1. a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAXONOMIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist

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

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

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

lumper (a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics)

divider; splitter (a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics)

Derivation:

taxonomy (practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships)

taxonomy ((biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification)

taxonomy (a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc)

 Context examples 

Flora de Brasil is a digital platform that gathers data from hundreds of years of field work in the Amazon region, with input from countless taxonomists.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)