Definition of "orchidologist" [or•chid•ol•o•gist]

• One who studies orchids. (noun)

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• "The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium."
• "A Protestant missionary stationed in the Caribbean who became a meticulous, self-taught orchidologist, Dod is said to have discovered more than 50 orchid species during his 17-year stay in Puerto Rico and subsequent residence in the Dominican Republic."
• "First collected in the 1980s by renowned orchidologist Donald Dod, the specimen was identified as a unique species thanks to DNA testing and analysis."