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单词 oologist
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oologistn.

Brit. /əʊˈɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /oʊˈ(w)ɑlədʒəst/
Forms: 1800s– oologist, 1800s– oölogist.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: oo- comb. form, -logist comb. form.
Etymology: < oo- comb. form + -logist comb. form, after oology n. Compare earlier oological adj. and (in different sense) ovologist n. at ovology n. Derivatives.
An expert in or student of oology; a collector of birds' eggs.
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1861 Harper's Mag. May 746/2 Near by the oologist is blowing eggs for specimens—some of them by no means odorous.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 773/1 The greatest scientific triumph of oologists lies in their having fully appreciated the intimate alliance of the Limicolae with the Gaviae.
1921 Amer. Midland Naturalist 7 44 The ‘Young Oölogist’ stated in its first volume that it was ‘for the Student of Birds, their nests and eggs.’
1956 R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher Wild Amer. xi. 119 The unscrupulous egg-collector is the next menace, although there are not many active oologists left in the United States.
1994 Independent on Sunday 2 Oct. 8/6 We are not egg collectors. We are oologists. We study eggs for scientific reasons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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