biogeographern.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)dʒɪˈɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊdʒɪˈɑɡrəfər/ An expert or specialist in biogeography.
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1898 Science 2 Sept. 301/2 At the New Mexico Agricultural College and Experiment Station, Professor C. H. T. Townsend has been appointed Biogeographer and Systematic Entomologist to the Station.
1922 Science 55 335/2 Biogeographers have long made use of floral and faunal areas for the classification of distribution.
1961 New Scientist 15 June 636/3 The biogeographer's task is to explain how this contact [between plants and animals] was achieved, and how it gave rise to the present pattern of distribution.
1998 Independent on Sunday 22 Nov. (Review Suppl.) 38/1 The same trend of far-flung human travel that gave biogeographers their data also began to muddle and nullify that data.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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