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by-OL-uh-jist/baɪˈɒlədʒɪst/

A biologist is a scientist who studies living things: a marine biologist; a wildlife biologist. Biology is the subject (already related); naturalist is a close twin, often less lab-based. Name the biologist in the paper, then the species. Mix-up: biologist vs botanist (plants only); zoologist (animals); do not write biologist for a TV presenter with no scientific source.

Meaning

A scientist who studies living things.

Examples

• “Name the biologist in the paper, then the species, not a TV presenter.”
• “A marine biologist featured in the coastal case, which is the habitat-specialist sense.”

Good to know

a marine / wildlife / molecular biologist. Subject: biology. Close: naturalist / botanist / zoologist. Trap: a presenter with no paper. Science and geography. A scientist of living things — name the person and the organism.

Near in meaning

scientist, naturalist, botanist

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