TAXONOMIST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior

Synonyms:

systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("taxonomist" is a kind of...):

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taxonomist"):

lumper (a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics)

divider; splitter (a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics)

Derivation:

taxonomy (practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships)

taxonomy ((biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification)

taxonomy (a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc)