Explore Taxonomist through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like biologist. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Taxonomist meaning
Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.
Synonyms of Taxonomist
Using Taxonomist
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.
- Useful related words include: taxonomer, systematist, biologist, life scientist.
Context around Taxonomist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Taxonomist
- In this selection, "taxonomist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, british, major, biological, someone and reginald stand out and add context to how "taxonomist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include architects and taxonomist will be and from one taxonomist to another. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "taxonomist" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with taxonomist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The next major taxonomist was Pliny the Elder (Rome, 23–79 AD). (12 words)
Treating animal as the immediate genus of the species man, horse, etc. is of little practical use to the biological taxonomist, however. (22 words)
Page 41. In 1929, the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the species under the genus Panthera using the scientific name Panthera tigris. (23 words)
Jordan was a taxonomist, someone who sought to organize the world into categories and hierarchies — he examined fish, determined what species they were and decided which were further along the evolutionary line of development. (34 words)
With the increase in user generated content, disparate data silos, and file formats, information architects and taxonomist will be required to allow users the ability to tag (classify) the data. (30 words)
Both the Lililiales order and the Liliaceae family have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another. (24 words)
Example sentences (6)
Jordan was a taxonomist, someone who sought to organize the world into categories and hierarchies — he examined fish, determined what species they were and decided which were further along the evolutionary line of development.
Both the Lililiales order and the Liliaceae family have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another.
Page 41. In 1929, the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the species under the genus Panthera using the scientific name Panthera tigris.
The next major taxonomist was Pliny the Elder (Rome, 23–79 AD).
Treating animal as the immediate genus of the species man, horse, etc. is of little practical use to the biological taxonomist, however.
With the increase in user generated content, disparate data silos, and file formats, information architects and taxonomist will be required to allow users the ability to tag (classify) the data.