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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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"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

The poinsettias we buy today are significantly different from the tall, gangly plants botanist Joel Roberts Poinsett discovered in Mexico in 1825, after he became that country’s first U.S. ambassador.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

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

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

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

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

Had Darwin looked carefully through the books in his voluminous library, he might have found a reference to an obscure paper by a little-known botanist from Brno.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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