parasitologist love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who studies parasites, or is versed in parasitology.

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  • noun A person who works in parasitology.

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Examples

  • I know more about insects and parasites because me and my friend Tony (who has gone on to become a parasitologist) used to talk about this kind of stuff in science classes.

    Think Progress » Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status. 2010

  • But none of them appeals to some environmentalists as much as the towering lunacy promoted by a parasitologist at Columbia University called Dickson Despommier.

    Greens living in ivory towers now want to farm them too 2010

  • Dr. Cross had been a Navy Department research parasitologist in Taipei and Manila before coming to the Washington area in 1984 to teach at the Uniformed Services University.

    John H. Cross, parasitologist, teacher Post 2010

  • The only way to demonstrate that a manipulation is genuine is to run experiments, and the first ones that demonstrated real manipulations with significant effects were performed in the 1980s by Janice Moore, a parasitologist at Colorado State University.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • My guide through the collection was Eric Hoberg, a parasitologist in the shape of a bear.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • According to the parasitologist Stephanie Schrag, each year the snails have a penis season.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • To his surprise, he was offered a job as a parasitologist at Rutgers despite his years in limbo.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • In some places, the parasitologist told him, the snails were riddled with the flukes, and in others they were free of them.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • I was glad to see that even a parasitologist has his limits.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • In the 1830s he contemplated the mystery of flukes, whose leaf-shaped bodies could be found in almost any animals a parasitologist cared to look at—in the livers of sheep, in the brains of fish, in the guts of birds.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

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