naturalist

Word family  noun nature naturalist naturalism naturalization naturalness the supernatural natural naturist naturism adjective natural ≠ unnatural supernatural naturalistic verb naturalize adverb naturally ≠ unnaturally naturalistically supernaturally

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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nat·u·ral·ist /ˈnætʃərəlɪst/ noun [countable]  HBAHBPsomeone who studies plants or animals 博物学家

Examples from the Corpus

naturalist• I wouldn't like to say I was born a naturalist, but I can remember collecting fossils when I was three.• Eigg, measuring just five miles by three, is treasured by walkers and naturalists alike.• Its thickly wooded shores, pastoral rivers and mercurial weather draw naturalists and artists.• Audubon had not been the first naturalist to describe the frontier.• Peter sat in the studio with a guest naturalist who had brought with him his own bits of film.• But this still left certain questions unanswered, and many naturalists did not accept the Darwinian approach to the question.• The naturalist in the field might not even have seen his specimens alive, but have acquired corpses from local people.

nat·u·ral·ist nounChineseSyllable  

or who someone plants Corpus studies animals

naturalist

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nat‧u‧ral‧ist /ˈnætʃərələst, ˈnætʃərəlɪst/ noun [countable]someone who studies plants or animals

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nat‧u‧ral‧is‧tic /ˌnætʃərəˈlɪstɪk◂/ (also naturalist) adjectivepainted, written etc according to the ideas of naturalism
—naturalistically /-kli/ adverb

nat·ur·al·istBrE /ˈnætʃrəlɪst/ 🔊NAmE /ˈnætʃrəlɪst/ 🔊 nouna person who studies animals, plants, birds and other living things 博物学家