naturalist

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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: {naturalist}, {natural scientist}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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