biologist
noun
a specialist in biology.
biologists
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pluralof biologist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Rosemary and Peter Grant, a married pair of evolutionary biologists who studied songbirds on Daphne Major, a small volcanic island in the Galápagos archipelago, are the subjects of Jonathan Weiner’s “The Beak of the Finch.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated whether an unusual genetic system shared by ants, bees and wasps helped drive one of nature's most sophisticated forms of social organization: eusociality.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Wildlife officials said biologists responded to the location and conducted an assessment of the mountain lion after it was tranquilized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Its variety and complexity has fascinated biologists, but with so many different songs, it has been difficult to study on a global scale.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The youngest are often “practically wiped out,” the biologists report.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
