biologist

«biologist» in Mova's school dictionary: A scientist who studies living things such as plants… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a biologist, biologists)

meaning for a pupil

A scientist who studies living things such as plants, animals, people and tiny living things like bacteria. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons it names a job: biologists observe, experiment and record how living things grow, feed, move and survive. In careers talk it shows how science leads to work in hospitals, labs, zoos, oceans and forests. Kinds include marine biologists (sea life) and wildlife biologists.

examples

• A biologist studies how frogs grow from tadpoles. tree →
• My aunt is a marine biologist who studies whales. tree →
• The biologist looked at the cells under a microscope. tree →
• Charles Darwin was a famous biologist. tree →
• Biologists count the birds in the forest every spring. tree →
• When I grow up, I want to be a biologist. tree →
• The biologist explained how bees help flowers. tree →

note

Countable: a biologist, biologists. bio = life, -logist = someone who studies. Subject: biology; adjective: biological. Stress: bye-OL-o-jist.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «biologist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.