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

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

From Science Magazine • Feb. 8, 2023

For the past three years, removing more of Dakota’s fossils from stone has been the work of Mindy Householder, another co-author of the study and a preparator at the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022

“A bone is a bone, but every spot is different,” said Beau Campbell, a senior preparator at the Dinosaur Institute.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2022

Wilkins, retired National Park Service archaeologist Don Morris and preparator Monica Bugbee painstakingly excavated the fossil from layers of dirt.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2016

Before reaching the latter we find two offices that face each other, one of them for the lecturer and the other for the preparator.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various