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botanist [bot-n-ist] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for botanist on Thesaurus.com noun
- a specialist in botany.
Origin of botanist 1675–85; botan(ism) botany (Greek botanismós, equivalent to botán(ē) plant + -ismos -ism) + -ist Related Words for botanist environmentalist, conservationist, zoologist, ecologist, biologist, botanist, preservationist Examples from the Web for botanist Contemporary Examples of botanist
The renowned 20th-century American botanist Luther Burbank first made a name for himself when he invented the Burbank potato.
Stacey Slate
January 22, 2010
In “Inverness,” a botanist finds something like faith through an encounter with an obsessed Loch Ness Monster hunter.
Taylor Antrim
December 25, 2009
Historical Examples of botanist
What a paradise this would be for the botanist in spring, or for the portrait painter!
Matilda Betham-Edwards
He is a man of wisdom and a botanist to boot—or do I mean withal?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 14, 1920
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The botanist tapped the arm of his chair with definite, meditative taps.
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
And yet does not the botanist like to study the flower in the soil where it grows?
Christopher Morley
As a boy the future botanist developed an astonishing faculty of climbing.
James Parton
Word Origin and History for botanist n.