[
US
/ˈɫəmpɝ/
]
[ UK /lˈʌmpɐ/ ]
[ UK /lˈʌmpɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics
- a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
How To Use lumper In A Sentence
- Some, called runners, spread exuberantly, and others are classified as clumpers, which slowly expands from the original planting.
- Generally, the tropical bamboos tend to be clumpers and the temperate bamboos tend to be runners.
- Oh, and I had no idea that, last year, Greg Paul (a notorious taxonomic "lumper" since at least the '80s) split the taxon Iguanodon into Iguanodon, Mantellisaurus, and Dollodon. "But I could sleep with you there. I could sleep with you there."
- What looks like one phenomenon to a lumper may look like three to a splitter.
- I tried a (free with coupon) lip plumper from a chain body and bath place and it felt like someone was rubbing fiberglass across my lips ... they felt injured after about 10 minutes. Do my lips look plump?
- One sometimes sees the difference between splitters and lumpers presented as one of taste and personality.
- Roundtrip Economy class air ticket for Hong Kong and Penang via Kuala Lumper MH ( E - Ticket ).
- Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout. Chapter 25
- People are paying for pads to make their tushes look tighter, their bums plumper. Susan Harrow: Get a Body Like Jennifer Aniston?
- A little later, in another department of the Wilmax Cannery, lumping as a fruit-distributor among the women, he essayed to carry two boxes of fruit at a time, and was promptly reproached by the other fruit-lumpers. SOUTH OF THE SLOT