botanist
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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
"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
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
"You, Mohammed Aziz, rookie botanist, actually found the flower of eternal life and didn't know it. You coulda been rich and famous at a young age, if you hadn't..."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
Travelers join pro botanists and mycologists to document the local flora and fungi, while educating villagers on safe foraging practices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
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
Planning the garden, botanists found 148 different plant species.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024
We were entering what botanists like to call “the finest mixed mesophytic forest in the world.”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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