Someone who studies or practices xenology.
- 1949 L.S. de Camp Animal-Cracker Plot Astounding SF (July) № 69/1: I know more about extraterrestrial life than most professional xenologists.
- 1955 T. Sturgeon Galaxy SF (Mar.) № 116/1: His passengers in coldpacks and a cargo of serums, refractories, machine tools and food concentrate for the xenologists and mineralogists who were crazy enough to work out there.
- 1979 P. Anderson Ways of Love Destinies (Jan.–Feb.) № 9: Perforce, we became a pair of jackleg xenologists.
- 1989 A.D. Foster Quozl № 31: The xenologist would have to be female, since the idea of taking an unbalanced crew was unthinkable.
- 2001 Interzone (May) № 6/2: I'm a xenologist and, since earning my degree, I've focused exclusively on communities descended from humans who were genetically modified to survive in a hostile environment.
