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ichthyologist

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Etymology

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From ichthyology +‎ -ist.

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Noun

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ichthyologist (plural ichthyologists)

  1. An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes. [from 18th c.]
    • 2025 June 14, Nigel Andrews, “They don't come any bigger”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 13:
      Meanwhile, the other two main actors, Richard Dreyfuss as boyish ichthyologist Hooper and Robert Shaw as grizzled shark-hunter Quint, further added to the deepening of the dramatis personae by the paradoxical boon that they loathed each other.

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