zoologistn.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 46 The..liberty of making those Experiments in live Beasts..may enable a Zoologist..to determine divers Pathologicall difficulties.

1670 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 2011 Nature having, as Zoologists teach us, furnished Ducks and other water-Fowl with a peculiar structure of some vessels about the heart.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 531 This..has been described..under the name of the Mus Africanus Hayopolin dictus. Most of the zoologists have omitted it.

1773 S. Johnson Let. 21 Sept. (1992) II. 78 Nor have I seen any thing that interested me, as a Zoologist, except an Otter.

1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 435 The Seladang is supposed by some zoologists to be identical with the Tapir.

1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent ii. viii. 253 The proverb says, ‘Ex pede Herculem’; and we have actual experience how the practised zoologist can build up some intricate organization from the sight of its smallest bone.

1910 Weekly Irish Times 8 Oct. 7/4 These are the reasons why zoologists and naturalists are anxious to save the whale.

1984 B. Heinrich In Patch of Fireweed iii. 44 There were often slight differences between them, which interested the zoologists.

2015 Times 2 June McGavin, a distinguished zoologist..is devoted to anything that creeps and crawls.