SYSTEMATIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does systematist mean? 

• SYSTEMATIST (noun)
  The noun SYSTEMATIST has 2 senses:

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

2. an organizer who puts things in order

  Familiarity information: SYSTEMATIST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYSTEMATIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist

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

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

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

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:

systematics (the science of systematic classification)

systematism (the habitual practice of systematization and classification)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An organizer who puts things in order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

orderer; systematiser; systematist; systematizer; systemiser; systemizer

Context example:

Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas

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

arranger; organiser; organizer (a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise)

Derivation:

systematism (the habitual practice of systematization and classification)