ZOOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zoologist mean? 

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

1. a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZOOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

animal scientist; zoologist

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

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

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

bug-hunter; bugologist; entomologist (a zoologist who studies insects)

ethologist (a zoologist who studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats)

herpetologist (a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians)

ichthyologist (a zoologist who studies fishes)

malacologist (a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks)

mammalogist (one skilled in the study of mammals)

bird watcher; ornithologist (a zoologist who studies birds)

protozoologist (a zoologist who studies protozoans)

Instance hyponyms:

Frisch; Karl von Frisch (Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982))

Goodall; Jane Goodall (English zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild (born in 1934))

Alfred Charles Kinsey; Kinsey (United States zoologist best known for his interview studies of sexual behavior (1894-1956))

Konrad Lorenz; Konrad Zacharias Lorenz; Lorenz (Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989))

Nikolaas Tinbergen; Tinbergen (Dutch zoologist who showed that much animal behavior is innate and stereotyped (1907-1988))

Derivation:

zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

 Context examples 

Professor Challenger, the famous zoologist! Wasn't he the man who broke the skull of Blundell, of the Telegraph?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The work by Dr Kiyoko Gotanda, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge, is one of the first studies to look at behavioural adaptations in a species following the eradication of invasive predators.

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)

Janet Voight, a zoologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, told: "To my knowledge, there had been no reports of octopuses at this or comparable depths between Southern California and Peru. Never would I have anticipated such a dense cluster of these animals in the deep sea.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)

We are blessed, my dear Challenger, above all zoologists since the world began!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thenceforward that was our one safety, and every strained situation was relieved by our introducing the name of the Scotch zoologist, when both our Professors would form a temporary alliance and friendship in their detestation and abuse of this common rival.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)