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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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The director of conservation at the California Botanic Garden, botanist Naomi Fraga, said a superbloom is typically classified as a regional phenomenon where you see fields of wildflowers stretching across hundreds of thousands of acres.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 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

Its Japanese name honors Jukichi Shiraga, a botanist from Niimi City who discovered the plant.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

It brought Chris Thorogood, a botanist at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, to tears.

From Salon • May 27, 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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