vivisectionist

1. 1.

   a biologist who cuts open live animals for research

   Broaderbiologist

Other forms of vivisectionist

plural

vivisectionists·

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 vivisectionist

What does vivisectionist mean?

vivisectionist means "a biologist who cuts open live animals for research".

How many syllables are in vivisectionist?

vivisectionist has 6 syllables and divides as vi-vi-sec-ti-o-nist 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.