generalist
IPA: dʒˈɛnɝʌɫɪst
noun
- A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.
- (medicine) A general practitioner.
- (ecology) Species which can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions. A eurytopic species.
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Examples of "generalist" in Sentences
- The regional campuses are more generalist.
- The generalist doesn't want that level of detail.
- The most prestigious journals are also the most generalist.
- I like the generalist, philosophical tenor of this proposal.
- These studies indicate that the species is a generalist feeder.
- Irioids decrease the growth rates of many generalist herbivores.
- The article is really a generalist overview of a physiology topic.
- Regarding invertebrates, the burrowing owl seems less of a generalist.
- These generalist and comprehensive camps are rare and hard to describe.
- However, the program of study at ISEN is a generalist engineer training.
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