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Webster 1913 Edition


Zootomist

Zo-ot′o-mist

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
zootomiste
.]
One who dissects animals, or is skilled in zootomy.

Webster 1828 Edition


Zootomist

ZOOTOMIST

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Noun.
[See Zootomy.] One who dissects the bodies of brute animals; a comparative anatomist.

Definition 2024


zootomist

zootomist

See also: zoötomist

English

Noun

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.