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Webster 1913 Edition

(sĭn-ŏn′ĭ-mĭst)

Noun.

[Cf. F.

synonymiste

One who collects or explains synonyms.

Noun.

Among botanists, a person who collects the different names or synonyms of plants, and reduces them to one another.

synonymist ‎(plural synonymists)