zootomist

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English

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Etymology

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zootomy +‎ -ist

Noun

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zootomist (plural zootomists)

  1. One who carries out zootomies.
    • 1834, Robert Edmond Grant, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy:
      The structure of almost every class of animals has been the subject of separate and minute examination among the zootomists of France.