taxonomist

American  

[taks-ah-nuhm-ist] / tæksˈɑ nəm ɪst /

noun

plural

taxonomists

1. an expert or practitioner in taxonomy, especially in biology.

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Other Word Forms

• non-taxonomist noun

Example Sentences

“It’s outrageous what’s going on,” says Robert Scotland, a plant taxonomist at the University of Oxford.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 10, 2023

Jackson Means, a millipede taxonomist at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, told Undark he had only seen similar conditions in an alcohol collection that had been left unattended in a warehouse for 22 years.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2023

Ricardo Viñas, who in November was laid off from his Seattle-based job as an information taxonomist for Meta, also wants less of that uncertainty.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Jennifer Parrucci is a senior taxonomist at The Times who spends her time digging through the paper’s 171-year archives.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022

Mendel, as we shall see, was an instinctual gardener—a breeder of plants, a counter of seeds, an isolator of traits; Darwin was a garden digger—a classifier of plants, an organizer of specimens, a taxonomist.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee