English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From hyetology + -ist.
Pronunciation[edit]
hyetologist (plural hyetologists)
- (rare) Someone who studies rain.
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 343:At sundown, when the moon is a bloody eye on the horizon, [...] the local hyetologist chants his rain song in a piercing clamorous falsetto.