Other forms: zoologists
A zoologist is a scientist who studies animals. A marine zoologist, ask a zoologist, zoologists have shown.
The field runs from molecular work on cells to counting birds in a field, and two zoologists may have almost nothing in common. The word is properly said with the first two vowels separate, as zo-ologist.
1nounzoologistA scientist who studies animals.
“The zoologist spent two years in the jungle studying how gorillas raise their young.”
zoologist is a scientist.
Ancient Greek
ζῷον — animal
English
zoology
English, today
zoologist
Built from
From zoology + -ist. zoology comes from Ancient Greek ζῷον (“animal”) + λόγος (“knowledge”). by surface analysis, zoo- + -logy. biology.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA