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    NATURAL SCIENTIST

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)play

    Synonyms:

    natural scientist; naturalist

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("natural scientist" is a kind of...):

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

    Domain category:

    botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

    zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Agassiz; Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; Louis Agassiz (United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873))

    Andrews; Roy Chapman Andrews (United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960))

    Baron Georges Cuvier; Cuvier; Georges Cuvier; Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier (French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832))

    Charles Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin; Darwin (English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882))

    Gesner; Konrad von Gesner (Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565))

    Hudson; W. H. Hudson; William Henry Hudson (English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922))

    Baron Alexander von Humboldt; Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt; Humboldt (German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859))

    Chevalier de Lamarck; Jean Baptiste de Lamarck; Lamarck (French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829))

    John Muir; Muir (United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914))

    Lorenz Oken; Lorenz Okenfuss; Oken; Okenfuss (German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living 'infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851))

    Georg Wilhelm Steller; Steller (German naturalist (1709-1746))

    Jan Swammerdam; Swammerdam (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))

    Alfred Russel Wallace; Wallace (English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913))

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