SWAMMERDAM

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

1. 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)

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

• SWAMMERDAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jan Swammerdam; Swammerdam

Instance hypernyms:

microscopist (a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes)

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

 Context examples 

Umberto Olcese, a researcher from the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the rest of the research team (which involved researchers from the European CANON project and that was led by Prof. Cyriel Pennartz, who participates in the European Flagship Human Brain Project) have discovered that not all forms of communication within the cerebral cortex are lost during non-REM sleep.

(Brain Is Still 'Connected' during Non-REM Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)