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Definitions of naturalist
  1. noun
    a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)

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  2. noun
    an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms
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  • wallace English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)
  • hudson English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
  • andrews United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)
  • muir United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)
  • humboldt German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859)
  • giotto Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
  • oken German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
  • lamarck French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
  • agassiz United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
  • okenfuss German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
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