Botanist Synonyms

bŏtn-ĭst
A biologist specializing in the study of plants
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. phytologist
  2. dendrologist
  3. plant scientist
  4. phytopathologist

Words Related to Botanist

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Botanist Sentence Examples

  • His father, Frederick Brooke Westcott, was a botanist of some distinction.

  • Another brother, Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg (1753-1815), was a prominent Lutheran clergyman, and was pastor of a church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1779 to his death; but he is best known as a botanist, and published Catalogus plantarum Americae septentrionalis (1813) and Descriptio uberior graminum et plantarum calamariarum Americae septentrionalis indignarum et circurum (1817).

  • C. Williamson (best known as a botanist) in Pritchard's Infusoria, in 1861.

  • According to Roxburgh, the great Indian botanist, the cultivated rice with all its numerous varieties has originated from a wild plant, called in India Newaree or Nivara, which is indigenous on the borders of lakes in the Circars and elsewhere in India, and is also native in tropical Australia.

  • He accordingly matriculated there on the 5th of November 158r, and immediately entered upon attendance at the lectures of the celebrated physician and botanist, Andrea Cesalpino.

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