naturalist

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He did this now every few days--not out of malice--I am sure of that--it only seemed to amuse and interest him, just as a naturalist might be amused and interested by a collection of ants Chapter 11 For as much as a year Satan continued these visits, but at last he came less often, and then for a long time he did not come at all.

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  1. noun One versed in natural history, especially in zoology or botany.
  2. noun One who believes in and follows the tenets of naturalism.

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  • Keegan's working on his Ph.D. as a naturalist, and in the meantime trading cooking and some bookkeeping for room and board. —  Greene, Jennifer - Rock Solid (html).html
  • There could hardly be a more favorable position for a naturalist, and there, in the midst of their specimens, Agassiz and his band of workers might constantly be found. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • But, apart from these, a naturalist is at once aware that Milton had neither the eye nor the ear of a naturalist. —  Milton
  • Funny how he is referred to as a naturalist and conservationist and alround good-guy AFTER his death. —  Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech
  • He is before all else a "naturalist," a naturalist with a sufficient field for investigation, though the life of the provinces and that of the fields (save in their more obvious aspect of mournful toil) lie beyond his sphere. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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  1. = French naturaliste = Spanish Portuguese Italian naturalista, from Middle Latin naturalista, a naturalist, from Latin naturalis, natural: see natural and -ist.
 

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