Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A taxonomist.
- noun One who adheres to or formulates a system or systems.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who forms a system or reduces to system; especially, one who constructs or is expert in systems of classification in natural history.
- noun One who adheres to a system: implying undue adherence to formalism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who forms a system, or reduces to system.
- noun One who adheres to a system.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A
biologist who studiessystematics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an organizer who puts things in order
- noun a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word systematist.
Examples
-
Dr. Hillis, by contrast is a well-respected systematist and evolutionary biologist.
-
Aristotle's promotion to the pantheon, as an examination of the basis for Darwin's admiration of Linnaeus and Cuvier suggests, was most likely the result specifically of Darwin's late discovery that the man he already knew as one of the greatest ... observers that ever lived 1879 was also the ancient equivalent both of the great modern systematist and of the great modern advocate of comparative functional explanation.
-
Sydenham was one of the founders of nosology, the science of classifying diseases, which came into its own at the time of the great systematist Linné (1707-78).
HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968
-
The German systematist, A.W. Eichler, attempted to remove this disadvantage which since the time of Jussieu had characterized the French system, and in 1883 grouped the Dicotyledons in two subclasses.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
-
The actual boundaries between animals and plants are artificial; they are rather due to the ingenious analysis of the systematist than actually resident in objective nature.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
-
As a systematist of vast experience Lamarck knew how difficult it is in practice to distinguish species from varieties.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
-
He was the first systematist to occupy himself in a philosophical manner with the problems of general biology.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
-
Let such an object be heard of by such a systematist as
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
-
Lamarck's affinity with the transcendentalists was in many ways a close one, but he differed essentially in being before all a systematist.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
-
In the second chapter of that work, Darwin observes that small "fortuitous" variations in individual organisms, though of small interest to the systematist, are of the "highest importance" for his theory, since these minute variations often confer on the possessor of them, some advantage over his fellows in the quest for the necessaries of life.
At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert
trailingedge commented on the word systematist
A taxonomist or a person who creates or adheres to a system; an organizer.
October 14, 2008