ornithologer

ornithologer noun: an ornithologist.

Noun

ornithologer (plural ornithologers)

(rare) An ornithologist.
- So although Galen ſaith that it is harder, than that of the Partridg, Pigeon, or Henne, &c; yet where he ſpeakes of meats of good and bad juyce, he affirmeth the former, as alſo that it’s neither thin nor groſſe, and Savonarola preferreth it before the Buſtard or Thruſh, ſo Bapt Fier. Yet the...1661, Robert Lovell, Πανζωορυκτολογια. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, […], Oxford, Oxon: […] Hen: Hall, for Jos: Godwin, page 134
- You see, he had killed hundreds and hundreds of them, and that ’s the way to find out about birds. That ’s the way people does that writes books about birds, and loves them so that they ’ll go hungry and tired and take any amount of trouble to find a new bird and kill it. Their name is...1893 December, Huck Finn [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXI, number 2, New...

Yet the Ornithologer and Volateranus deny it.1661, Robert Lovell, Πανζωορυκτολογια. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, […], Oxford, Oxon: […]...
Their name is ornithologers, and I could have been an ornithologer myself, because I always loved birds and creatures; […]1893 December, Huck Finn [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An...
Herbert, 53, nationally-known ornithologer, will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. in St.1960 April 12, “[Obituary] Richard A. Herbert”, in Journal-Every Evening, volume 28, number 87, Wilmington, Del., page thirty-five, column...
Ornithologers meet / FOND DU LAC — The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology will sponsor it s^([sic]) annual swan trip Sunday.1980 April 12, Leisure & Home (The Post-Crescent), Appleton, Wis., page 11, column 2:

plural	ornithologers

From Latin ornithologus + -er.

What does ornithologer mean?: Ornithologer means an ornithologist.
How do you use ornithologer in a sentence?: Yet the Ornithologer and Volateranus deny it.
What part of speech is ornithologer?: Ornithologer is a noun.
What is the plural of ornithologer?: The plural of ornithologer is ornithologers.

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