ethnobotanist
- noun
- /ˌɛθnoʊbəˈtænɪst/
- Specialized
- 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.
- 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.
Examples
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Some ethnobotanists and anthropologists believe that understanding local plant uses is crucial for preserving cultural heritage.
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"At this meeting, the central role of ethnobotanist Donna House (Navajo/Oneida) emerged as well."
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Well, I am doing it because I'm an ethnobotanist and I'm interested basically in useful plants.
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You know, he's now a very well known anthropologist, ethnobotanist, prolific writer and traveller, and, you know, a good friend, very bright guy.
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An initial subscriber, the ethnobotanist Edgar Anderson, began to mail Landscape on to Carl Sauer, then chair of geography at Berkeley.
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Cherry co-authored The Shaman's Apprentice with Dr. Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist from the Smithsonian Institution.
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Carrasco assembled a team of archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, historians, and an archaeoastronomer.
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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:
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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.
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As an ethnobotanist, I've studied traditional medical practices involving plants in many parts of the world.
Surface Forms
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.