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- noun A scientist dedicated to the study of
earthworms .
Etymologies
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From Oligochaeta, the taxonomic class of earthworms.
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In the book, she interviews Dorothy McKey-Fender, an oligochaetologist (a scientist dedicated to the study of earthworms).
mjardine commented on the word oligochaetologist
A scientist dedicated to the study of earthworms. http://bit.ly/aB4U4q
January 31, 2010