English-French translations for naturalist

• naturaliste
  Donc, pour tout scientifique ou pour tout naturaliste, se faire traiter d’autruche n’est pas une insulte, mais bien un honneur! So, for any scientist or naturalist, being described as an ostrich is not an insult, but an honour!
  Je voudrais ici prendre la défense de ce malheureux volatile, car de mémoire de naturaliste on n’a jamais vu d’autruche mettre la tête dans le sable. I would like to come to the defence of this much-maligned bird, because no naturalist has ever seen an ostrich put its head in the sand.

Definition of naturalist

• A natural philosopher; a scientist.
• A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
• A creative artist who attempts to faithfully represent nature; an adherent of artistic naturalism.

Related words

• naturalistic
• naturalistically
• supernaturalist
• antinaturalist