botanist
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He was in need of a botanist and approached Reinhold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
"He's taken us all to places that we would never otherwise go. That's a huge gift," botanist Sandra Knapp, director of research at London's Natural History Museum, told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
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
The Shiraga grape was first identified as a new species in 1918 by renowned botanist Tomitaro Makino.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025
In that year Peter Wilhelm Lund, a Danish botanist, found thirty skeletons in caves twenty miles north of Belo Horizonte.
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
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
It’s a bane of hikers, but botanists say the native plant plays an important role in the ecosystem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025
The plant, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum, grows in gravelly soil throughout the region.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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