taxinomist

Noun

taxonomist (plural taxonomists)

1. Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.
   • Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii

   Synonyms:

   taxologist, taxologer, taxonomer