"scorpiologist" meaning in English

See scorpiologist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: scorpiologists [plural]
Etymology: From scorpiology + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|scorpiology|ist}} scorpiology + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} scorpiologist (plural scorpiologists)
  1. A scientist who studies scorpions.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "scorpiology",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "scorpiology + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From scorpiology + -ist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scorpiologists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scorpiologist (plural scorpiologists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ist",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970 March 20, LIFE, volume 68, number 10, page 59:",
          "text": "Joe Bigelow chose to name one of his scorpions (far right) for Stanley Williams, a scorpiologist he admires.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Robert Lloyd Smith, Venomous Animals of Arizona, page 4:",
          "text": "Our state has produced two well-known scorpiologists, Drs. Stanley C. Williams and Oscar F. Francke, under the direction of Dr. Mont A. Cazier at Arizona State University.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerry G. Walls, Scorpions: Plus Other Popular Invertebrates:",
          "text": "Most scorpiologists believe that adult scorpions don't even molt, so there is no chance of regrowing a missing part.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scientist who studies scorpions."
      ],
      "id": "en-scorpiologist-en-noun-YhtsnCaZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "scientist",
          "scientist"
        ],
        [
          "scorpion",
          "scorpion"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scorpiologist"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "scorpiology",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "scorpiology + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From scorpiology + -ist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scorpiologists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scorpiologist (plural scorpiologists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ist",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970 March 20, LIFE, volume 68, number 10, page 59:",
          "text": "Joe Bigelow chose to name one of his scorpions (far right) for Stanley Williams, a scorpiologist he admires.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Robert Lloyd Smith, Venomous Animals of Arizona, page 4:",
          "text": "Our state has produced two well-known scorpiologists, Drs. Stanley C. Williams and Oscar F. Francke, under the direction of Dr. Mont A. Cazier at Arizona State University.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerry G. Walls, Scorpions: Plus Other Popular Invertebrates:",
          "text": "Most scorpiologists believe that adult scorpions don't even molt, so there is no chance of regrowing a missing part.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scientist who studies scorpions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scientist",
          "scientist"
        ],
        [
          "scorpion",
          "scorpion"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scorpiologist"
}

Download raw JSONL data for scorpiologist meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.