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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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White lilies are said to represent peace and are a traditional choice for acts of remembrance in the UK, says botanist James Wong of BBC Gardeners' Question Time.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

He was in need of a botanist and approached Reinhold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

“There’s a lot of unknowns,” said Sasha Travaglio, a spokesperson for the Santa Rosa Island fire Burned Area Emergency Response team, which includes a hydrologist, a soil scientist, an archaeologist, a paleontologist and a botanist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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

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

They corresponded with botanists throughout the Colonies, sending them bulbs and shoots when illustrations would not do.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson


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