botanist
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈbɑːtənɪst/
:
botánico
- The botanist carefully examined the rare flower to understand its characteristics.
- botanists and zoologists
- trained botanists
This is a very fancy term that botanists and horticulturists use to define growth tips.
- This is a very fancy term that botanists and horticulturists use to define growth tips.
- You know, if I want to be a great landscaper or botanist, I'm going to read a book on how to fix cars.
- You know, if I want to be a great landscaper or botanist, I'm going to read a book on how to fix cuts.
Examples
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You started as a botanist, didn't you?
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Based on the Baskins' results, Virginia botanists have started a program of controlled burns at the site.
Academic text (1996) -
The voice you hear is the voice of the greatest research botanist today.
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So, how did you become a head botanist?
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But Scottish botanist Robert Brown disagreed.
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While all acknowledged the botanist's scientific expertise, his character was another matter.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the 1950s, a Japanese botanist discovered viable lotus seeds in an Ice Age lakebed.
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Many of these bulbous species have been collected by visiting botanists and then cultivated in foreign countries.
Academic text (1997) -
In California, for example, botanists find monocultural patches of wildflowers and wonder why they are there.
Academic text (2001) -
Mary T. Kalin Arroyo, a Chilean botanist, leads a satellite project on the Mediterranean flora of central Chile.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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2.1
A person who studies science and does experiments to find new facts
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3.5
A scientist who studies living things and where and how they live
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4.8
A person who studies plants and animals in nature
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9.3
A scientist who studies how people in different cultures use plants for food and medicine
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9.5
A scientist who studies plant fossils from long ago
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3.7
A person who studies plants, animals, and where they live
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4.0
A person who studies how plants grow and live
A scientist who studies plants
A scientist who studies trees and other plants that have wood
A person who studies and grows fruit trees
A person who studies ferns
How Expert
Surface Forms
Morphology
botanist = botany (transparent) = botan + ist
The agentive suffix '-ist' applied to the field 'botany' yields 'botanist' meaning 'a person who studies plants', which is a straightforward, regular derivation.
Etymology
Botanist comes from the Greek word botane, meaning 'plant' or 'grass', and it shares the same root as botany and botanical. So a botanist is someone who studies plants, which is why the word means 'a scientist who studies plants'.