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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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White lilies are said to represent peace and are a traditional choice for acts of remembrance in the UK, says botanist James Wong of BBC Gardeners' Question Time.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

A botanist answers the second question: Miss Wolcott’s Ghost, long believed extinct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Among the millions of observations shared on the platform, the photos eventually caught the attention of botanist Anthony Bean from the Queensland Herbarium.

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

The botanist recently visited the park and witnessed the many wildflowers in bloom, though in some places they were already beginning to go to seed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

This ancient refuse became ammunition in a long-running academic battle between Harvard botanist Paul C. Mangelsdorf and George Beadle, a geneticist who worked at Stanford, Caltech, and the University of Chicago.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

In 2013, von Konrat led a team of botanists and volunteers to survey the region, cataloging grasses, trees, and mosses in search of a location that matched the plant material found on the shoes.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 1, 2026

Travelers join pro botanists and mycologists to document the local flora and fungi, while educating villagers on safe foraging practices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

In the 19th and early 20th Centuries Swedish explorers, ethnographers and botanists would pay to travel on British ships to Cape Town and then make their way inland by rail and foot.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

Calling squash a fruit wears me out a little, but, okay botanists, with your genus-species-variety nomenclature, I concede: by definition, squash is indeed a fruit.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

They corresponded with botanists throughout the Colonies, sending them bulbs and shoots when illustrations would not do.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson


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