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NATURALIST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

natural scientist; naturalist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("naturalist" is a kind of...):

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

Domain category:

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

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

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

An advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("naturalist" is a kind of...):

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Derivation:

naturalism ((philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations)

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