Describer [noun]

He is, however, an admirable describer and a capital story-teller.

This unique specimen was shot by the describer from a tall tree in the forest, where it was accompanied by one other of its kind.

"Blessed day for England," cries the Italian describer, in a rapture of devotion.

While the systematic position was not satisfactorily determined by the describer, it has been aptly compared to a trilobite.

Some modern commentators have made savage use of such weapons upon this original describer of witchcraft scenes.

We shall now present him under a different aspect, as an eloquent and almost unrivalled describer of nature.

Temminck, its original describer, placed it in the genus Hyaena.

He was a teacher of morality as well as a describer of nature, which is more than his Lordship is.

I will endeavour to give you some idea of Ratzeburg, but I am a wretched describer.

Autotype: any specimen identified by the describer as an illustration of his species and compared with the type or co-type.