Systematist

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Systematist \Sys"tem*a*tist\, n. [Cf. F. syst['e]matiste.]
     1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system.
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     2. One who adheres to a system.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  systematist
       n 1: a biologist who specializes in the classification of
            organisms into groups on the basis of their structure
            and origin and behavior [syn: {taxonomist}, {taxonomer}]
       2: an organizer who puts things in order; "Aristotle was a
          great orderer of ideas" [syn: {orderer}, {systematizer}, {systematiser},
           {systemizer}, {systemiser}]