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Word: ornithologist

Definition: scientific student of birds; N. ornithology: scientific study of birds


Sentences Containing 'ornithologist'

Moreover, I do not believe that any ornithologist would in this case place the English carrier, the short-faced tumbler, the runt, the barb, pouter, and fantail in the same genus; more especially as in each of these breeds several truly-inherited sub-breeds, or species, as he would call them, could be shown him.

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