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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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The botanist recently visited the park and witnessed the many wildflowers in bloom, though in some places they were already beginning to go to seed.

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

"My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant," says Kobe University botanist Kenji Suetsugu.

From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025

Sarah Shuttleworth, a botanist with Plantlife, argues that certain intensive farming methods have contributed.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

In the summer of 1909, almost exactly a century later, the botanist Wilhelm Johannsen coined a distinct word to denote a unit of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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