ornithologer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ornithologist.
Example Sentences
- "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 Ornithologer and Volateranus deny it."
- "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 ornithologers, and I could have been an ornithologer myself, because I always loved birds and creatures; […]"
- "Funeral services for Richard A. Herbert, 53, nationally-known ornithologer, will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. in St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Middletown, with a memorial service next Tuesday in Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York."
- "Ornithologers meet / FOND DU LAC — The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology will sponsor it s^([sic]) annual swan trip Sunday."
Etymology
From Latin ornithologus + -er.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: ornithologus