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ethnobotanist

ethnobotanist

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A scientist who studies how people in different cultures use plants for food and medicine
  • noun
  • /ˌɛθnoʊbəˈtænɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : etnobotánico
  • And reading this book recently called Medicine Quest by an ethnobotanist named Mark Plotkin.
  • Navajo ethnobotanist
  • ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin
  • ethnobotanist Donna

Well, I am doing it because I'm an ethnobotanist and I'm interested basically in useful plants.

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Examples

  • Some ethnobotanists and anthropologists believe that understanding local plant uses is crucial for preserving cultural heritage.

  • "At this meeting, the central role of ethnobotanist Donna House (Navajo/Oneida) emerged as well."

    Academic text (2004)
  • Well, I am doing it because I'm an ethnobotanist and I'm interested basically in useful plants.

  • You know, he's now a very well known anthropologist, ethnobotanist, prolific writer and traveller, and, you know, a good friend, very bright guy.

  • An initial subscriber, the ethnobotanist Edgar Anderson, began to mail Landscape on to Carl Sauer, then chair of geography at Berkeley.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Cherry co-authored The Shaman's Apprentice with Dr. Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist from the Smithsonian Institution.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Carrasco assembled a team of archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, historians, and an archaeoastronomer.

    Academic text (2009)
  • I approached the gardens as any student of the botanist-plant geographer Jonathan Sauer, the plant ecologist John Curtis, and the ethnobotanist Hugh Iltis might:

    Academic text (2004)
  • Cozzo's work organizes many of the documented plants into a folk classification system based on the recorded observations of previous ethnobotanists and analyses of the Cherokee plant names.

    Academic text (2011)
  • As an ethnobotanist, I've studied traditional medical practices involving plants in many parts of the world.

Surface Forms

ethnobotanist singular

Morphology

ethnobotanist = ethnobotany (semi-transparent) = ethno + botan + ist

The term 'ethnobotany' is specialized and may not be immediately transparent to all learners.

Etymology

The word ethnobotanist comes from three parts: ethno- meaning 'people', as in ethnic, botany meaning 'study of plants', and -ist meaning 'a person who studies'. So an ethnobotanist studies how different people use and understand plants.