Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in ichthyology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An expert in
ichthyology : one who studiesfishes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a zoologist who studies fishes
Etymologies
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Examples
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"They're nutty people," says ichthyologist Robert Behnke , a retired Colorado State University professor and expert on North American trout who calls the bug advocates "obstructionists."
Flies, and Their Lawyers, Keep Rare Trout From Going Home Justin Scheck 2011
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That appears to be correct *I am not even close to being either a paleontologist or an ichthyologist*.
Tetrapods are older than we thought! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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But in the book, he's also a frustrated cuckold whose unsatisfied wife is noodling around with a handsome ichthyologist.
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* Though usually described (by palaeontologists) as a palaeontologist, Cope was also an accomplished herpetologist and ichthyologist, which explains the name of the journal Copeia.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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* Though usually described (by palaeontologists) as a palaeontologist, Cope was also an accomplished herpetologist and ichthyologist, which explains the name of the journal Copeia.
Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I) Darren Naish 2007
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Christiana, our ichthyologist managed to net two beautiful and exotic frog fish, normally coastal species, hanging around.
Laurie David: Captain Moore's Journey to the Accumulation Zone: An Update 2009
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There are, as noted ichthyologist Bill Belichick often notes, bigger fish to fry.
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"The politicians are very good at selling dreams — that in the Amazon we will find all the cures to our diseases," says Efrem Ferreira, a Brazilian ichthyologist at the INPA.
Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? 2008
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"The politicians are very good at selling dreams — that in the Amazon we will find all the cures to our diseases," says Efrem Ferreira, a Brazilian ichthyologist at the INPA.
Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? 2008
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After an ichthyologist named David Starr Jordan became the first president of Stanford University in the 1890s, he bequeathed to memory researchers one of their favorite truisms: Every time he learned the name of a student, Jordan is said to have complained, he forgot the name of a fish.
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm Gary Wolf 2008
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