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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes. [from 18th c.].
Meanwhile, the other two main actors, Richard Dreyfuss as boyish ichthyologist Hooper and Robert Shaw as grizzled shark-hunter Quint, further added to the deepening of the dramatis personae by the paradoxical boon that they loathed each other.
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Ichthyologist means An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes. [from 18th c.].
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Meanwhile, the other two main actors, Richard Dreyfuss as boyish ichthyologist Hooper and Robert Shaw as grizzled shark-hunter Quint, further added to the deepening of the dramatis personae by the paradoxical boon that they loathed each other.
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