English > botanist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A biologist specializing in the study of plants. |
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| Synonyms | phytologist, plant scientist |
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| Instances | Banks, Sir Joseph Banks | English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage / voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820) |
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| Brown, Robert Brown | Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) |
| Carver, George Washington Carver | United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts / peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943) |
| Cohn, Ferdinand Julius Cohn | German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants |
| Curtis, William Curtis | English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799) |
| Gray, Asa Gray | United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) |
| Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu | French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836) |
| Linnaeus, Carolus Linnaeus, Carl von Linne, Karl Linne | Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778) |
| Mendel, Gregor Mendel, Johann Mendel | Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884) |
| Tradescant, John Tradescant | English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638) |
| deVries, De Vries, Hugo deVries, Hugo De Vries | Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935) |
| Narrower | mycologist | A botanist who specializes in the study of fungi |
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| pomologist | someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees |
| propagator | someone who propagates plants (as under glass) |
| Broader | biologist, life scientist | (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms |
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| Spanish | botánica, botánico, botanista, phytologist |
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| Catalan | botànic, phytologist |
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| Nouns | botany | the branch of biology that studies plants |
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