animal scientist

1. 1.

   a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals

   Synonymszoologist

   Broaderbiologist

   NarrowerentomologistethologistherpetologistichthyologistmalacologistmammalogistornithologistprotozoologistFrischGoodall

Questions about animal scientist

What does animal scientist mean?

animal scientist means "a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals".

What is another word for animal scientist?

Close synonyms include zoologist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is animal scientist a common word?

animal scientist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.