oryctologistn.
/ˌɒrᵻkˈtɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌɔrɪkˈtɑlədʒəst/ Now historical and rare.
An expert in or student of oryctology.
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mineralist1631
mineralogist1646
oryctologist1799
rockhound1922
the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > palaeobiology
fossilist1747
fossilogist1776
oryctologist1799
fossilologist1801
palaeontologist1838
palaeobiologist1900
palaeontographer1935
palaeopathologist1939
taphonomist1974
1799 J. C. De Serra in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 151 Some of the impressions or remains of plants, which were, by more ancient and less enlightened oryctologists, supposed to belong to plants actually growing in temperate and cold climates, seem..to have been parts of exotic vegetables.
1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone (ed. 2) xiv. 301 With which [substances] the oryctologist has still to acquaint himself.
1976 Q. Rev. Biol. 51 517/1 Sir Ashton Lever launched a lottery to dispose of his Leicester Square museum, and the winner was a Hoxton surgeon, apothecary, and oryctologist, James Parkinson.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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