lumper

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Say lions and tigers are one species and biologists will call you a lumper.

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a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

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noun

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

noun

a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lumper.

noun

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

noun

a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics

Example sentences

Say lions and tigers are one species and biologists will call you a lumper.

Others, called 'lumpers,' see wider species categories and fewer limbs on the tree.

I'm something of an operational lumper myself, and would love to have been born in a time when one could claim to be a world citizen.

A lumper has no problem saying, "C/C++ are low-level languages with manual memory management" ; but a splitter will object with, "I hate it when C and C++ are lumped together!

I think we might further define two types of lumper-splitter divides: analytical, and operational.

'The lumpers, of course, will love this new paper, but I can see splitters saying that there is too much variation in both the African early Homo and Dmanisi sample for them to all be Homo erectus.

Ireland's devastating "potato famine" was another example of the catastrophe that can result from free-market-drive overdependence on a single monoculture --- in this case the "lumper" potato variety, which was susceptible to the Phytophthora infestans blight --- with no genetic diversity [1].