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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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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

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

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

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

The book came from the family library of Hubert Priestley who was a famous botanist in the 1930s and brother to the Antarctic explorer and geologist, Sir Raymond Edward Priestley.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

“Some parts of Oaxaca go up nine thousand feet,” T. Boone Hallberg, a botanist at the Oaxaca Institute of Technology, told me.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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