Meanings
nounoligochaetologist (plural oligochaetologists)
plural oligochaetologists
- A scientist dedicated to the study of earthworms.
An ornithologist can simply meander through a forest and look up; an oligochaetologist must keep an ear to the ground, so to speak, and try to divine the ideal earthworm habitat.
2007 April 22, Amy Stewart, “How the Worm Turns”, in New York Times
Origin
From oligochaetology + -ist, from Oligochaeta, the taxonomic class of earthworms.
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