biologist

English

Etymology

From biology +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

biologist (plural biologists)

1. 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

• aerobiologist
• agrobiologist
• anthropobiologist
• astrobiologist
• chronobiologist
• cosmobiologist
• cryobiologist
• cytobiologist
• developmental biologist
• electrobiologist
• endocytobiologist
• ethnobiologist
• evolutionary biologist
• exobiologist
• geobiologist
• geomicrobiologist
• glycobiologist
• gnotobiologist
• hydrobiologist
• immunobiologist
• limnobiologist
• macrobiologist
• magnetobiologist
• marine biologist
• metabiologist
• microbiologist
• molecular biologist
• nanobiologist
• neurobiologist
• nonbiologist
• palaeobiologist
• paleobiologist
• parabiologist
• pathobiologist
• photobiologist
• phytobiologist
• population biologist
• protobiologist
• proverbiologist
• pseudobiologist
• psychobiologist
• radiobiologist
• saprobiologist
• sociobiologist
• speleobiologist
• xenobiologist

 

Translations

student of biology; one versed in the science of biology

• Albanian: biolog (sq)
• Arabic: أَحْيَائِي m (ʔaḥyāʔī)
• Armenian: կենսաբան (hy) (kensaban)
• Asturian: biólogu (ast) m, bióloga (ast) 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)

• 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
• Indonesian: biolog, ahli biologi
• Irish: bitheolaí m
• 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)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژینناس (jînnas)

• 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