dendrochronologist
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- noun
- /ˌdɛn.drəˈkrɒn.ə.lə.dʒɪst/
- Specialized
- At the university, thedendrochronologist analyzed the tree rings to uncover valuable information about historical droughts.
Examples
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Adendrochronologist studies tree rings to determine how old a tree is and understand past climates.
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Dendrochronologist Henry Michael, 90, a sixty-five-year museum veteran, still comes to the office three times a week.
Academic text (2004) -
"Yesterday, I couldn't spell dendrochronologist, and now I am one!"
Blog text (17) -
It could go into definitions of words like dendrochronologist, borehole, UHI, etc.
Blog text (8) -
As a college upperclassman, he had participated in an ongoing research project led by a Cornell dendrochronologist to date the age of old timbers in the Mediterranean region.
Academic text (2001) -
Over the next twenty years, she helped introduce new archaeometrical techniques and, with MASCA dendrochronologist Henry Michael ("Telling Time," March/April 2001), vastly improved the accuracy and reliability of radiocarbon dating.
Academic text (2004) -
The work of adendrochronologist involves collecting samples from ancient trees to learn about environmental changes over centuries.
Synonyms
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A scientist who studies trees and other plants that have wood
Surface Forms
Morphology
dendrochronologist = dendrochronology (semi-transparent) = dendro + chrono + log + ist
The word is formed by adding the agentive suffix '-ist' to the technical base 'dendrochronology'.
Etymology
Dendrochronologist breaks into three parts: dendro- meaning 'tree', chron- meaning 'time' like in chronology, and -logist meaning 'one who studies' like in biologist. So a dendrochronologist reads tree rings to find a tree's age and the story of past weather.