biologist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a scientist who studies living organisms and the processes of life

   The biologist recorded how the island's lizards adapted to drought.

Common collocations

• molecular biologist Adjective + noun

Formed from biology and the agent suffix -ist. Biology combines Greek bios, meaning life, with -logia, meaning study or discourse, so a biologist is literally a person engaged in the study of life.

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