Meanings
nounlimnologist (plural limnologists)
plural limnologists
- A specialist in limnology.
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
2012 January 28, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46
Origin
- Englishlimno-
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- Englishlimnology
- Englishlimnologist
Translations
Finnish limnologi
- limnologispecialist in limnology
German Limnologe, Limnologin
- Limnologespecialist in limnology
- Limnologinspecialist in limnology
Russian озеровед, лимнолог
- озеровед (ozeroved)specialist in limnology
- лимнолог (limnolog)specialist in limnology
Swedish limnolog
- limnologspecialist in limnology
Cite this entry
APA
limnologist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limnologist
MLA
“limnologist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limnologist. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “limnologist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limnologist.
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