biologist
/baɪˈɒlədʒɪst/ (bre, ipa) · /baɪˈɑːlədʒɪst/ (ame, ipa)
biologist — noun
- biologistsingular
- biologistsplural
1. a scientist whose job is to study living things — plants, animals, or even tiny
a scientist whose job is to study living things — plants, animals, or even tiny things like cells and bacteria — and how they grow, behave, and survive.
Yuki is a marine biologist who tags whales off the coast of Iceland.
common compound: marine biologist
The biologists at the lab spent six months studying how the new virus spread among bats.
biologists + at + organisation
Mert always wanted to be a biologist after watching documentaries about coral reefs as a child.
A wildlife biologist from the national park counted every wolf in the valley last winter.
The team includes two biologists, a chemist, and three university students who joined for the summer.
- life scientist
broader umbrella term covering biologists plus related researchers; more formal
- naturalist
older, less technical; usually someone who observes plants and animals in the wild rather than doing lab work
- zoologist
narrower; a biologist who specifically studies animals
文法句型
a/the biologist
biologist + at/from + organisation
marine/wildlife/molecular + biologist
用法筆記
Frequently appears with a specifying word that names the field: 'marine biologist', 'wildlife biologist', 'molecular biologist', 'evolutionary biologist'. The plain noun by itself is fine in everyday talk, but academic and news writing usually adds the specialty.