systemistn.
/ˈsɪstᵻmɪst/, U.S. /ˈsɪstəməst/ Now chiefly Biology.
= systematist n.
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > system of > proponent of
systematic1662
systematist1700
systemist1714
methodist1753
taxonomist1835
lumper1857
taxonomer1881
splitter1887
taxinomist1899
cytotaxonomist1937
biosystematist1943
pheneticist1965
1714 J. Knight Let. Reverend Dr. Clark 40 You dignify me with the Title of a Systemist.
1796 E. Hamilton Lett. Hindoo Rajah (1811) II. 236 But little pain did the sorrows of the mourners give to the young systemist.
1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xv. 151 The genus Cyprinus as now restricted by modern systemists contains the common carp and allied species.
1927 Auk 44 33 Some systemists have been, and are, too eager to use such variations as justification in erecting a multiplicity of subspecies.
2007 T. B. Fowler & D. Kuebler Evol. Controv. viii. 287 What today looks like a finch could in 10,000 years cross the boundary imposed by systemists and become an entirely different bird.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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