preparator

American  

[pri-par-uh-ter, -pair-] / prɪˈpær ə tər, -ˈpɛər- /

noun

1. a person who prepares a specimen, as an animal, for scientific examination or exhibition.

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Etymology

Origin of preparator

1755–65; < Late Latin praeparātor preparer, equivalent to praeparā ( re ) to prepare + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

A work by Manuel Rodríguez-Delgado involving a climate-sealed notebook and custom shipping crates glances off the unwieldy category of preparator work, and the wall label for Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #48,” per his instructions, names the people who drew it.

From New York Times

Beneath it, Blasto Onyango, head preparator of the National Museums of Kenya, found a huge hominin molar.

From Science Magazine

But if you, private citizen of age in the state of Washington, are determined to combine your intoxicants — and, caveat preparator — you can purchase said beverages and use them as mixers with alcohol that you purchase legally at, say, a grocery store, and consume them recreationally in the privacy of your own home.

From Seattle Times

David A. Burnham, a preparator in vertebrate paleontology at a University of Kansas museum, who is also identified as having studied Shen, explained in the report how he calculated the “bone density” figure.

From New York Times

“The skin itself is a very deep brown, almost brownish black, and it actually has a bit of a shine to it because it has so much of that iron in it” from the fossilization process, said Mindy Householder, a study co-author and a fossil preparator for the State Historical Society of North Dakota in Bismarck.

From Scientific American