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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

"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

Campbell is a keen botanist and has a diploma from the Royal Horticultural Society; Robertson has started learning how to mend clothes and is an avid music video fan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

I'm a botanist and mechanical engineer; basically, the mission's fix-it man who played with plants.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

The public will be able to report suspected pink daffodils to the RHS by sending in photographs, which will be sent to expert botanists to examine.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 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

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

Secretaries or botanists, and once the director’s assistant, bring her back to the key pound.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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