Systematist (Noun)
Meaning 1
An organizer who puts things in order; "Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas".
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 2
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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Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- As a systematist, she spent most of her career studying the diversity of insect species in the tropical rainforest.
- Dr. Smith was a renowned systematist in the field of ichthyology, having discovered and classified over a hundred new species of fish.
- The biologist was fascinated by the unique characteristics of the ancient plant and saw herself as a systematist on a mission to understand its evolutionary history.
- Systematists from all over the world collaborated on a massive project to develop a new phylogenetic tree that accurately reflected the relationships among different groups of mammals.
- With years of research and extensive data analysis, the systematist finally resolved the taxonomic status of the contentious new species that had sparked a long-standing debate among his colleagues.