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

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

Her early work as a fossil preparator didn’t even include the possibility of fossil skin.

From New York Times

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