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aviarist en · NOUN

Etymology

From aviary + -ist.

Meanings

1. A person who keeps an aviary.
   • Since then the price of these handsome Doves has fallen considerably, but it is still sufficiently high to make a good breeding pair of them a by no means unprofitable investment for the aviarist. 1896, William Thomas Greene, Feathered Friends Old and New, L. Upcott Gill, page 288:
   • But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day. 1895, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 1, The Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, page 22:
   • 1979, Al Shenk, Calculus and Analytic Geometry, 2nd Edition, Scott Foresman, page 385, An aviarist is watching one of his birds that has escaped and is flying directly south from the aviary at a height of 100 feet above the aviarist’s eye level.

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