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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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In the 1700s the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set about devising a system for arranging species through a two-part system we still use today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He was in need of a botanist and approached Reinhold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Professor Rod Fensham, a botanist at the University of Queensland, said urgent action is needed to prevent the species Rhodamnia zombi from disappearing due to the fungal disease known as myrtle rust.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

The botanist recently visited the park and witnessed the many wildflowers in bloom, though in some places they were already beginning to go to seed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

In that year Peter Wilhelm Lund, a Danish botanist, found thirty skeletons in caves twenty miles north of Belo Horizonte.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The British botanists had been collecting indigenous plants and seeds, before their bodies were found days later in a river.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

The meddling botanists have grudgingly admitted I did a good job.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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