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bot·a·nist

 (bŏt′n-ĭst)
n.
One who specializes in botany.
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bot•a•nist

(ˈbɒt n ɪst)

n.
a specialist in botany.
[1675–85]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.botanist - a biologist specializing in the study of plantsbotanist - a biologist specializing in the study of plants
phytologist, plant scientist
biologist, life scientist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms
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)
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Translations
عالِم نَبات
botanik
botaniker
botanikusnövénykutató
grasafræîingur
botanik
botanik uzmanı/âlimi

botanist

[ˈbɒtənɪst] N → botánico/a m/f, botanista mf
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

botanist

[ˈbɒtənɪst] n → botaniste mf
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

botanist

n → Botaniker(in) m(f)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

botanist

[ˈbɒtənɪst] n → botanico/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

botany

(ˈbotəni) noun
the scientific study of plants.
boˈtanic(al) (-ˈtӕ-) adjective
ˈbotanist noun
a person who studies botany.
botanic(al) gardens noun singular or plural
a public park for the growing of native and foreign plants.
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Botany was, I knew, a favourite study of his: and these flowers were to me so entirely new and mysterious, that I was really curious to see what a botanist would say of them.
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What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute.
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After a few hundred yards of thick forest, containing many trees which were quite unknown to me, but which Summerlee, who was the botanist of the party, recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which have long passed away in the world below, we entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.
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From the top of the chimney he climbed he had caught sight of a new omnibus, whose color and name he had never known, as a naturalist might see a new bird or a botanist a new flower.
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He did this with the peculiar touch of the botanist. In naming the little green plant to her he used the Latin name, thus disguising some flower familiar even to Chelsea, and making her exclaim, half in amusement, at his knowledge.
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