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systematist

American  
[sis-tuh-muh-tist] / ˈsɪs tə mə tɪst /

noun

  1. a person who constructs a system.

  2. a naturalist engaged in classification.

  3. a person who adheres to a system, order, or method.


systematist British  
/ ˈsɪstɪmətɪst /

noun

  1. a person who constructs systems

  2. an adherent of a system

  3. a taxonomist

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of systematist

1690–1700; < Greek systēmat- (stem of sýstēma ) system + -ist


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The project “will allow the delivery of scientific knowledge at scale,” says Dimitris Koureas, a systematist turned bioinformatician at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, which oversees DiSSCo.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024

He; Guillermo D'Elía, a systematist and mammalogist at the Austral University of Chile; and other South American colleagues went on their first 3-week expedition in 2020.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 23, 2023

Fortunately, “it’s actually not that hard to simulate a mass extinction,” said Emily Sessa, a plant systematist at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023

The work is convincing, says Peter Stevens, a systematist at the University of Missouri in St. Louis who was not involved with the study.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 5, 2018

Systematic work would be easy were it not for this confounded variation, which, however, is pleasant to me as a speculatist, though odious to me as a systematist.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

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