marine biologist

noun

: a scientist who studies life in the sea

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Juliana Vanegas, a marine biologist who works with Alvarado, explains what happens. John Otis, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025 Stay in an overwater bungalow at Finolhu and learn about the wildlife from the resident marine biologist. Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025 Have a budding marine biologist in the family? Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025 Any kind of hard material attracts fauna in water, says Andrey Vedenin, a marine biologist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany, who was not involved in the Mallows Bay study but co-authored a separate new paper that detailed wildlife thriving on war detritus in the Baltic Sea. Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marine biologist

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“Marine biologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marine%20biologist. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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