Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jan_swammerdam

1 sense of jan swammerdam

Sense 1
Swammerdam, Jan Swammerdam -- (Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680))
       INSTANCE OF=> naturalist, natural scientist -- (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))
       INSTANCE OF=> microscopist -- (a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes)