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

“OK, this is a prank,” Vinicius Ferreira, an insect taxonomist and evolutionary biologist, said to himself.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2023

Of that creature, a British taxonomist named Oldfield Thomas wrote in 1888 that “no zoologist has dared to describe it.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 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

Miller examines the story of American taxonomist and ichthyologist David Starr Jordan who doesn't give up when his life work discovering and collecting fish is destroyed in an instant in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2020

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