botanist
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He was in need of a botanist and approached Reinhold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Baimedov, who has become an amateur botanist, tends to about 15,000 saplings, which are aimed at forming a green wall against the sand.
From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025
"My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant," says Kobe University botanist Kenji Suetsugu.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2025
The poinsettias we buy today are significantly different from the tall, gangly plants botanist Joel Roberts Poinsett discovered in Mexico in 1825, after he became that country’s first U.S. ambassador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Or should I say: Mom used to be a botanist?
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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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
How all the other botanists studied the blueness, but Mom said, Wait.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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