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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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He was in need of a botanist and approached Reinhold.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Among the millions of observations shared on the platform, the photos eventually caught the attention of botanist Anthony Bean from the Queensland Herbarium.

From Science Daily May 18, 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

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

He sent a copy to Joseph Hooker and later to another botanist, in America, Asa Gray.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

In the 19th and early 20th Centuries Swedish explorers, ethnographers and botanists would pay to travel on British ships to Cape Town and then make their way inland by rail and foot.

From BBC Jun. 7, 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

Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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