mammalogistn.
/məˈmalədʒɪst/, /maˈmalədʒɪst/, U.S. /məˈmælədʒəst/ An expert in or student of mammalogy.
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mazologist1818
mammalogist1839
mastologist1890
therologist1891
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 353/1 Aldrovandus, Jonston, and the rest of that class of mammalogists, seem to have followed Gesner.
1841 R. Owen in Trans. Geol. Soc. 6 62 The true genus Didelphys of modern Mammalogists.
1883 Academy 1 Dec. 365/3 Dr. Coues, whom hitherto we have known as an ornithologist only, here shows that he is no less skilled as a ‘mammalogist’, to borrow one of the many neologisms to which we have been for the first time introduced.
1959 New Scientist 26 Mar. 675/1 The staff mammalogists are quick to point out that what they really want are a long series..of quite ordinary species.
1992 N.Y. Times 18 Feb. c4/6 Molecular analysis helped settle a dispute among paleontologists and mammalogists about the phylogeny of the Australian marsupial wolf.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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