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microbiologist

noun

Etymology

From micro- + biologist.

  1. borrowed from biologia
  2. formed as biologist — “biology + -ist”
  3. formed as microbiologist — “micro- + biologist”

Definitions

  1. A biologist whose speciality is microbiology.

    • On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
    • No, because we obsessively clean it (or use paper coverings at work), said microbiologist Charles Gerba, a professor of public health, environmental science and immunology at the University of Arizona.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA