Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A student of, or writer upon, a fauna; one who is versed in faunæ; a zoögeographer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who describes the
fauna of a country.
Etymologies
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fauna + -ist
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Examples
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Dear Sir, -- Some future faunist, a man of fortune, will, I hope, extend his visits to the kingdom of Ireland; a new field and a country little known to the naturalist.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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