naturalist（n.）
“动植物学家，”约公元1600年来自法语 naturaliste，源自 natural（参见 natural（形容词））。更早的“研究自然而不是精神事物的人”（1580年代）。中英语的一个称呼“自然哲学家或科学家”是 naturien（14世纪后期）。
[The naturalist on expedition, pursued by a Nile crocodile, has climbed a palm tree for safety.]
Suddenly he experienced a new shudder of terror, as he remembered an article which he had inserted in the Belfast Review, and in which he had himself declared that crocodiles climb trees like cats. He would gladly have thrown this article into the fire, but it was too late, all Belfast had read it, it had been translated into Arabic and no Oriental author had yet refuted it, not even at Crocodilopolis. [Graham's Magazine, November 1855]
突然间，他体验到一种新的恐惧，想起了一篇他在贝尔法斯特评论中发表的文章，在那篇文章中，他自己宣称鳄鱼像猫一样爬树。他很想把这篇文章扔进火里，但为时已晚，贝尔法斯特的人都读过它，它被翻译成阿拉伯语，甚至在鳄鱼城没有任何东方作家反驳它。【格雷厄姆杂志，1855年11月】
该词起源时间：约1600年