English
Etymology
From biology + -ist .
Pronunciation
Noun
biologist (plural biologists )
A student of biology ; one versed in the science of biology.
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby , “Focus on Everything ”, in American Scientist :Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. [ …] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
Derived terms
Translations
student of biology; one versed in the science of biology
Albanian: biolog (sq)
Arabic: أَحْيَائِيّ m ( ʔaḥyāʔiyy )
Armenian: կենսաբան (hy) ( kensaban )
Asturian: biólogu m , bióloga f
Basque: biologo (eu)
Belarusian: біёлаг m ( bijólah )
Bulgarian: биоло́г (bg) m ( biológ ) , биоло́жка (bg) f ( biolóžka )
Catalan: biòleg m , biòloga f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 生物學家 / 生物学家 (zh) ( shēngwùxuéjiā ) , 生物学家 (zh) ( shēngwùxuéjiā )
Czech: biolog (cs) m , bioložka (cs) f
Danish: biolog (da) c
Dutch: bioloog (nl) m , biologe (nl) f
Esperanto: biologo (eo) , biologino ( female ) , biologiisto (eo) , biologiistino ( female )
Estonian: bioloog (et)
Finnish: biologi (fi)
French: biologiste (fr) m or f , biologue (fr) m or f ( obsolete )
Galician: biólogo m , bióloga f
German: Biologe (de) m , Biologin (de) f
Greek: βιολόγος (el) m or f ( viológos )
Greenlandic: biologi
Hebrew: ביולוג \ בִּיוֹלוֹג (he) m ( biológ )
Hungarian: biológus (hu)
Icelandic: líffræðingur (is) m
Irish: bitheolaí m
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Italian: biologo (it) m , biologa (it) f
Japanese: 生物学者 (ja) ( せいぶつがくしゃ, seibutsugakusha )
Korean: 생물학자(生物學者) (ko) ( saengmulhakja )
Latin: biologus m , biologa f
Latvian: biologs m , bioloģe f
Macedonian: биоло́г m ( biológ )
Maori: kaimātai koiora
Norwegian:
Bokmål: biolog m
Nynorsk: biolog (nn) m
Polish: biolog (pl) m or f , biolożka (pl) f
Portuguese: biólogo (pt) m , bióloga f , biologista (pt) m or f
Romanian: biolog (ro) m , biologă (ro) f
Russian: био́лог (ru) m ( biólog )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: био̀лог m , биоло̀гица f
Roman: biòlog (sh) m , biològica (sh) f
Slovak: biológ (sk) m , biologička (sk) f
Slovene: biolog (sl) m , biologinja f
Spanish: biólogo (es) m , bióloga (es) f
Swedish: biolog (sv) c
Tagalog: haynayanon , manghahaynay
Thai: นักชีววิทยา ( nák-chii-wá-wít-tá-yaa )
Turkish: biyolog (tr) , dirim bilimci (tr)
Ukrainian: біо́лог (uk) m ( bióloh ) , біологи́ня f ( biolohýnja )
Urdu: ماہرِ حیاتیات m ( māhir-e-hayātiyāt ) , ماہرۂ حیاتیات f ( māhirā-e-hayātiyāt ) , حیاتیات دان m or f ( hayātiyāt-dān )
Volapük: lifavan , hilifavan ( male ) , jilifavan ( female )
West Frisian: biolooch , biologe