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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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"He's taken us all to places that we would never otherwise go. That's a huge gift," botanist Sandra Knapp, director of research at London's Natural History Museum, told AFP.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

"My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant," says Kobe University botanist Kenji Suetsugu.

From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025

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

From Salon • May 27, 2025

A forensic botanist said there was "very strong evidence" the wedge had come from the Sycamore Gap tree.

From BBC • May 2, 2025

In the summer of 1909, almost exactly a century later, the botanist Wilhelm Johannsen coined a distinct word to denote a unit of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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