Bennet Synonyms

bĕnĭt
Avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. white avens
  2. Geum virginianum
North American white-flowered avens
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. white avens
  2. Geum canadense

Bennet Sentence Examples

  • In the Yale Divinity School his influence was powerful, and in 1833 one of his foremost opponents, Bennet Tyler (1783-1858), founded in East Windsor a Theological Institute to offset Taylor's teaching at Yale.

  • In 1840 the appearance of Chemistry in its Application to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus von Liebig set on foot a movement in favour of scientific husbandry, the most notable outcome of which was the establishment by Sir John Bennet Lawes in 1843 of the experimental station of Rothamsted.

  • Of these stations the greatest, and the oldest now existing, is that at Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts, England, which was founded in 1843 by Sir John Bennet Lawes.

  • To the original members were afterwards added several remarkable persons, amongst whom were Josiah Wedgwood, Bennet Langton (Dr Johnson's friend), and, later, Zachary Macaulay, Henry Brougham and James Stephen.

  • Christopher Bennet (1617-1655) wrote an important work on consumption in 1654.

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