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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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In the 1700s the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set about devising a system for arranging species through a two-part system we still use today.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

He was in need of a botanist and approached Reinhold.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 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 director of conservation at the California Botanic Garden, botanist Naomi Fraga, said a superbloom is typically classified as a regional phenomenon where you see fields of wildflowers stretching across hundreds of thousands of acres.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2026

Or should I say: Mom used to be a botanist?

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

The British botanists had been collecting indigenous plants and seeds, before their bodies were found days later in a river.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

This created a “competition for botanical immortality,” as dubiously qualified botanists described and named plants for personal glory.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

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

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

We were entering what botanists like to call “the finest mixed mesophytic forest in the world.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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