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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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He was in need of a botanist and approached Reinhold.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

“There’s a lot of unknowns,” said Sasha Travaglio, a spokesperson for the Santa Rosa Island fire Burned Area Emergency Response team, which includes a hydrologist, a soil scientist, an archaeologist, a paleontologist and a botanist.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 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

Its Japanese name honors Jukichi Shiraga, a botanist from Niimi City who discovered the plant.

From Science Daily Nov. 3, 2025

I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

The latest group to protest, No Canyon Hills, formed in spring 2023 as a collection of artists, designers and amateur botanists who say the area’s native flora and wildlife are worth protecting.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2024

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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