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erpetologist

erpetologist is the archaic form of herpetologist.

Meaning of herpetologist

Noun

herpetologist (plural herpetologists)

  1. One who studies reptiles and amphibians; a reptile and amphibian specialist.
    • Already, Griffith has observed several amphibian extinctions. Pretty much every herpetologist working out in the field has watched several.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company

Forms of erpetologist

pluralerpetologists

Questions about erpetologist

What is erpetologist the archaic form of?
Erpetologist is the archaic form of herpetologist.

Words near erpetologist in the dictionary

  1. ERP
  2. ERPC
  3. ERPed
  4. Erpelding
  5. Erpeldings
  6. erpetologist
  7. erpetologists
  8. erpetology
  9. ERPing
  10. ERPO
  11. erpobdellid

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