marine biologistn.
/məˈriːn bʌɪˈɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /məˈrin baɪˈɑlədʒəst/ A person engaged or expert in marine biology.
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migrationist1845
marine biologist1885
synecologist1913
ecologist1930
hydro-biologist1932
cryobiologist1962
saprobiologist1965
1885 H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wanderings Eastern Archipel. iii. 40 The atoll offers to the marine biologist a rich mine that would take not a few years of working to exhaust.
1893 Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc. 7 62 There is no subject to which Marine Biologists could better devote themselves than to trace the causes which govern the migration of the herrings.
1955 Sci. News Let. 2 July 13/1 Free-diving has given marine biologists a revolutionary method of specimen collecting.
1963 T. A. Sebeok in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 30 Aristotle was also the first marine biologist who accurately classed the dolphin with the mammals.
1991 Salt Water Sportsman Feb. 45/3 A 15-foot megamouth shark, a species so rare that marine biologists have never seen one alive, was hauled into Dana Point Harbor..last October.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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