plant scientist

/plænt ˌsaɪəntəst/

Definitions of plant scientist

1. noun

   a biologist specializing in the study of plants
   synonyms: botanist, phytologist

   examples:

   Sir Joseph Banks

   English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)

   Robert Brown

   Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

   George Washington Carver

   United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)

   Ferdinand Julius Cohn

   German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants

   William Curtis

   English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)

   Hugo De Vries

   Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)

   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)

   Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

   French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)

   Carolus Linnaeus

   Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)

   Gregor 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)

   John Tradescant

   English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)

   types:

   mycologist

   a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi

   pomologist

   someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees

   propagator

   someone who propagates plants (as under glass)

   type of:

   biologist, life scientist

   (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms