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VIVISECTIONIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vivisectionist mean?
• VIVISECTIONIST (noun)
The noun VIVISECTIONIST has 1 sense:
1. a biologist who cuts open live animals for research
Familiarity information: VIVISECTIONIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A biologist who cuts open live animals for research
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("vivisectionist" is a kind of...):
biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)
Derivation:
vivisection (the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research))
Context examples
Or else he probes them with the cruel hand of a vivisectionist, groping about in their mental processes and examining their souls as though to see of what soul-stuff is made.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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