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MICROBIOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A specialist in microbiology
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("microbiologist" is a kind of...):
biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "microbiologist"):
virologist (a specialist in virology)
Instance hyponyms:
Albert Bruce Sabin; Albert Sabin; Sabin (United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906))
Derivation:
microbiology (the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans)
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