Naturalist

3 definitions found

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

  naturalist \nat"u*ral*ist\, n. [Cf. F. naturaliste.]
     1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural
        history, esp. of the natural history of plants or animals;
        a botanist or zoologist.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  


     2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in
        religion. --H. Bushnell.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  naturalist
       n 1: an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood
            in scientific terms
       2: a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially
          botany and zoology) [syn: {natural scientist}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalist":
     Marxist, anatomist, bacteriologist, biochemist, biologist,
     biometrist, biophysicist, botanist, commonsense philosopher,
     cytologist, dialectical materialist, ecologist,
     epistemological realist, geneticist, materialist, natural realist,
     natural scientist, physicist, physiologist, realist, zoologist