bi·ol·o·gist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist]
noun
a specialist in biology.

Origin:
1805–15; biolog(y) + -ist

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biology (baɪˈɒlədʒɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  the study of living organisms, including their structure, functioning, evolution, distribution, and interrelationships
2.  the structure, functioning, etc, of a particular organism or group of organisms
3.  the animal and plant life of a particular region
 
bi'ologist
 
n

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Biologist is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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Word Origin & History

biologist
1813, from biology + -ist.
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Example sentences
But in a country still emerging from colonial rule, there was no such
  profession as wildlife biologist.
True, no biologist has really believed in vitalism for more than a century.
The first thing a biologist wants to know about a piece of land or water is
  what lives there.
The vet and a biologist stay behind to watch over him until he wakes completely
  and stumbles off.
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