| NOUN | person | taxonomist, taxonomer, systematist | a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior |
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| Meaning | A biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior. | |
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| Synonyms | taxonomer, systematist | |
| Narrower | lumper | A taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics / characteristics |
| splitter, divider | A taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics / characteristics | |
| Broader | biologist, life scientist | (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms |
| Spanish | taxonomer | |
| Catalan | taxonomista | |
| Nouns | taxonomy | practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships |
| taxonomy | (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification | |
| taxonomy | a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin / origin etc | |
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