natural scientist
English Thesaurus
1. a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) (noun.person)
instance hyponym | : | agassiz, jean louis rodolphe agassiz, louis agassiz, |
definition | : | United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | andrews, roy chapman andrews, |
definition | : | United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gesner, konrad von gesner, |
definition | : | Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john muir, muir, |
definition | : | United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lorenz oken, lorenz okenfuss, oken, okenfuss, |
definition | : | German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jan swammerdam, swammerdam, |
definition | : | Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alfred russel wallace, wallace, |
definition | : | English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913) (noun.person) |
domain category | : | botany, phytology, |
definition | : | the branch of biology that studies plants (noun.cognition) |
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