Other forms: biologists
A biologist is a scientist who studies living things. A marine biologist, a research biologist, ask a biologist.
The field is so wide that almost nobody is simply a biologist: there is a molecular biologist working with proteins and a field biologist counting birds, and they may share very little. Marine biologist is the one every child wants to be.
1nounbiologistA scientist who studies living things.
“The biologist spent months in the rainforest studying tree frogs.”
biologist is a scientist.
New Latin
biologia
English
biology
English, today
biologist
From biology + -ist. biology Learned borrowing from New Latin biologia. New Latin biologia (1766), itself from Ancient Greek - βίος + λογία. by surface analysis, en + bio- + -logy. In English, first attested in the modern meaning in the work of English physician Thomas Beddoes in 1799. The term is also recorded in the sense of a biographical history in the work of Dudley Loftus in 1686, but this is considered by the Oxford English Dictionary to be an isolated use. The modern Greek βιολογία is borrowed from the English term and French biologie via international scientific vocabulary. zoology.
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