systematist
noun
sys·tem·a·tist
ˈsi-stə-mə-tist 
si-ˈste-mə-
si-ˈste-mə-
1
: a maker or follower of a system
2
: a specialist in taxonomy : taxonomist
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Morton Arboretum herbarium director and plant systematist Andrew Hipp would lead an audit of the molecular makeup of any samples from the trip before slotting them into their rightful branch on the tree of life.
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Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
To reconstruct the mighty American oak’s history, Andrew Hipp, a plant systematist at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, and colleagues obtained tens of thousands of pieces of DNA from 300 trees representing 146 oak species.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2017
Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
To reconstruct the mighty American oak’s history, Andrew Hipp, a plant systematist at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, and colleagues obtained tens of thousands of pieces of DNA from 300 trees representing 146 oak species.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2017
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systematist
noun
sys·tem·a·tist
ˈsis-tə-mət-əst
: a classifying scientist : taxonomist
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