Definitions

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  • noun One who engages in bioprospecting.

Etymologies

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bio- +‎ prospector

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Examples

  • The bioprospector leaned as close to one of the motionless organisms as he dared.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • This Hasselemoga person, another freelance bioprospector not six months arrived on Fluva, had gone and gotten himself lost in the depths of the Viisiiviisii.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Not only was she furious at the apprehended bioprospector, she was equally angry at herself.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • It was incumbent on him, as a freelance bioprospector, to learn how to repair in the field a good deal more than just the gear he used to study plants and other growing things.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Given that, there was always the slight chance they actuallywould find the misbegotten bioprospector alive somewhere in the unmeasured depths of the Viisiiviisii.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • They retired to the outer office, leaving her alone with the bioprospector.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • At the very least, he would be generally anointed the leading bioprospector on Fluva.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • If he can be found, bring in the independent bioprospector Sethwyn Case.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • The bioprospector nobody seems to like and the rescue team that was sent after him?

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • As she was about to leave the building, Pandusky informed her that word had just come in from an extremely remote southern village of the arrival, tattered and tired but otherwise in good physical shape, of both the missing bioprospector Hasselemoga and the two members of the team that had been sent to rescue him.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

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