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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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Kobe University botanist Kenji Suetsugu explains, "These interactions are fascinating because they sit on the boundary between cooperation and conflict."

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 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

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

At the grocery store, I linger in the produce section with the reverence of a botanist on sabbatical, basket brimming with romaine, iceberg, butter — anything leafy and remotely flirty.

From Salon • May 26, 2025

He had also sent the sketch to Asa Gray, the American botanist, about a year earlier “so that I could most truly say & prove that I take nothing from Wallace.”

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




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