botanist
Other forms: botanists
Use the noun botanist to describe a biologist whose specialty is plants — the way they grow, the differences between them, and everything else that has to do with plant science.
The earliest botanists, in the 1500s, began a system of classifying plants scientifically, while modern botanists study the DNA of plants as well as their uses in medicine and nutrition. The root word is botanic, from the Greek botanikos, "of herbs."
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a biologist specializing in the study of plantssynonyms: phytologist, plant scientistexamples:Sir Joseph BanksEnglish botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)Robert BrownScottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)George Washington CarverUnited States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)Ferdinand Julius CohnGerman botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plantsWilliam CurtisEnglish botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)Hugo De VriesDutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)Asa GrayUnited States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)Antoine Laurent de JussieuFrench botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)Carolus LinnaeusSwedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)Gregor MendelAugustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)John TradescantEnglish botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)types:mycologista botanist who specializes in the study of fungipomologistsomeone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit treespropagatorsomeone who propagates plants (as under glass)type of:
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