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botanist

[ UK /bˈɒtɐnˌɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑtənɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a biologist specializing in the study of plants

How To Use botanist In A Sentence

  • These microbiologists, plant physiologists, soil scientists, and geobotanists shared an interest in pursuing experimental investigations of energy, matter, and life.
  • Some ethnobotanists and anthropologists are convinced that root and tuber crops were among the first plants to be domesticated.
  • The idea that cycads stem from Carboniferous so-called pteridosperms (‘seed ferns’ or seed plants with fern-like foliage) has long been popular with paleobotanists.
  • I realized she was assessing my back muscles, judging their strength, reading them the way a botanist reads the rings of a tree's trunk.
  • Botanists will divide the world of plants into hundreds of thousands of different species.
  • When he retired from his work as an Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner, he decided to emulate English Botanist and Diatomist Dr. C. L. Odam and collect diatoms from tributaries.
  • *] A dwarf shrub belonging to the genus STENOCHILUS, but new, was found here [**]; and we met also with a large spreading tree, from which we could bring away nothing that would enable botanists to describe it, except as to the texture and nervation of the leaves, which, Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
  • Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists. Ancient Egypt
  • In fact, the name dianthus, coined by Greek botanist Theophrastus, is derived from the Greek words dios (divine) and anthos (flower). What in Carnation?
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