MICROBIOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microbiologist mean? 

• MICROBIOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun MICROBIOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a specialist in microbiology

  Familiarity information: MICROBIOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROBIOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in microbiology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

 Context examples 

Serendipitously, it was sensitive enough to also detect the toxin in urine, said ARS microbiologist Candace Bever, who worked on the development.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

Studying life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Japan's island of Okinawa, microbiologists led by a team from the University of Vienna found that certain microbes thrive in conditions similar to those on Enceladus.

(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)

Albert Einstein College of Medicine microbiologist William Jacobs and colleagues previously discovered by accident that antioxidants like vitamin C stopped TB bacteria in a test tube from becoming persisters.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)