botanist
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A botanist answers the second question: Miss Wolcott’s Ghost, long believed extinct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
That same year de Vries published his monumental study of plant variants, Carl Correns, a botanist in Tübingen, published a study on pea and maize hybrids that precisely recapitulated Mendel’s results.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
Some botanists believe poodle-dog is becoming more prevalent in a world where climate change is fueling more frequent fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025
In England, if not everywhere, most botanists and zoologists were a muddled lot.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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