ichthyologist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ichthyology + -ist.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ichthyologist (plural ichthyologists)
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]expert in ichthyology
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