herpetologist

1. 1.

   a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians

   Broaderzoologist

Other forms of herpetologist

plural

herpetologists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about herpetologist

What does herpetologist mean?

herpetologist means "a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians".

How many syllables are in herpetologist?

herpetologist has 5 syllables and divides as her-pe-to-lo-gist under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.