botanist

[ bot-n-ist ]

noun

1. a specialist in botany.

Word History and Origins

Origin of botanist¹

1675–85; botan ( ism ) botany (< Greek botanismós, equivalent to botán ( ē ) plant + -ismos -ism ) + -ist

Example Sentences

In my global exploits as a field botanist, I found that stranglers occupy the most extraordinary lifestyle of any trees on the planet, bar none!

From Nautilus

Demand for ramps has grown so much in recent years that some botanists are concerned about overharvesting and sustainability of the plant.

From Vox

Bolomor Cave Neandertals probably ate fruit, nuts and seeds of plants that once grew in the area, says coauthor José Carrión, an evolutionary biologist and botanist at the University of Murcia.

From Science News

In the few years since botanists discovered this anomaly, scientists worldwide have tried with no more than limited success to figure out how mistletoes pull off this trick.

From Quanta Magazine

The city had long drawn botanists of international standing.

From Science News

“He heard I was coming and rolled over like a 2-month-old baby,” said Richard, a gray-bearded botanist from Staten Island.

From The Daily Beast

The renowned 20th-century American botanist Luther Burbank first made a name for himself when he invented the Burbank potato.

From The Daily Beast

In “Inverness,” a botanist finds something like faith through an encounter with an obsessed Loch Ness Monster hunter.

From The Daily Beast

Herr Schleierer, a botanist, assured us that he once found upon one tree six and thirty different kinds of creepers and parasites.

From Project Gutenberg

It was dead, insofar as he knew, and apparently useless except perhaps as a club, but the botanist was delighted to receive it.

From Project Gutenberg

The whole procedure—taking the cosmic view—was almost pointless, but it would make the botanist happy, at least.

From Project Gutenberg

Named after Mr. Allan Cunningham, the botanist of the expedition.

From Project Gutenberg

A botanist of note, he had a remarkable conservatory where he cultivated geraniums only.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• biologist
• conservationist
• ecologist
• environmentalist
• zoologist