(n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) We become like botanists who think that being able to label a specimen means we know all we need to know about it.
(2) The gardenia and poinsettia are named after New World physician-botanists Alexander Garden and Joel Poinsett.
(3) This study may be useful to pharmacologists and chemists interested in plants with medicinal properties, as well as to botanists with ethnobotanical interests.
(4) The field of chronobiology, the study of the rhythms in plants and animals, was restricted to botanists for centuries.
(5) At least four of the 10 doctors of the First Fleet were keen botanists, and their endeavours established a precedent for medical "botanizing" which has become a living tradition over the ensuing 200 years.
(6) This classification scheme, which most closely reflects the evolutionary history, molecular biology, genetics and ultrastructure of extant life, requires changes in social organization of biologists, many of whom as botanists and zoologists, still behave as if there were only two important kingdoms (plants and animals).
(7) Give him a butterfly net and he could pass for a louche Victorian botanist.
(8) The relationship of green algae to land plants has greatly interested botanists for more than a century.
(9) Only one in seven universities now provide practical courses for trainee botanists in looking at plant disease.
(10) Pharmaceutical scientists and botanists from all over the world met at the University of Illinois to map a 3-year program for collecting and testing plants which may be effective in regulating fertility.
(11) Not much of a botanist myself, I did pick (at the guide's prompting) a handful of wild oregano – currently drying in my kitchen – and was envious of the wild cistus flowers that have never sprawled so successfully in my garden.
(12) In Europe, the first people who showed any interest for the cocaplant were the botanists.
(13) Plant identification in response to poison control inquiries poses problems for medical staff and botanists alike.
(14) The botanist provided his identification results through a blinded process.
(15) Jirí Josef Camel (1661-1706), a pharmacist and botanist, was born in Brno, educated at a grammar school and then joined the Jesuit Order as a laic brother.
(16) Once the patient was treated according to our normal protocol, the plant specimen was sent to a botanist for a second identification.
(17) He acquired an high reputation as a doctor and botanist and was invited to a medical chair at the University of Ferrara (1541), which he left to go to Ancona (1547).
(18) As a botanist Zinn was honoured by the fact that a flower (Zinnie) was named after him.
(19) Atherstone of Grahamstown--the first doctor to use a general anaesthetic (ether) outside America and Europe--is a 19th century example of the naturalist physician as an ardent botanist; he was also a geologist and identified the first diamond found in South Africa.
(20) Philosopher, anatomist, paleontologist, botanist, educator, and natural scientist in the purest sense of the work, Leidy's interest in the humanities and in all aspects of nature lent itself to his exact descriptions of new species and unchartered anatomic realms.
Botanizing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Botanize
Example Sentences:
(1) Following a brief historical introduction, current production of commercially important alliums is described and their botanical origins and interrelationships are explained.
(2) The results reveal that Tibetan Huanglian and Yunnan Huanglian are different in botanical origin.
(3) This paper reviews the clinical and epidemiologic literature and identifies the specific woods (with botanical names) and their respiratory disease correlates, including pulmonary function declines, chronic and acute symptoms, and impaired mucociliary transport.
(4) A medico-botanical study was carried out in certain villages of the Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the traditional uses of medicinal plants by the rural population for curing human diseases.
(5) Because the characterization of grain dusts is incomplete, we are defining the botanical, chemical, and microbial contents of several grain dusts collected from grain elevators in the Duluth-Superior regions of the U.S.
(6) Cross sensitizations were found between botanically related as well as between less related species of the trees.
(7) For each species listed, the family, the botanical name, the voucher specimen number, the vernacular name, the pharmacological and therapeutical properties are given.
(8) The potential for production of fine particulate from botanical trash materials plus lint and linters was determined in the laboratory by an abrasive milling test.
(9) Linnaeus planted the seed in the botanical garden of the University of Uppsala...
(10) After a nail-biting count, Fahey stood in the Royal Botanic Gardens and proclaimed: “The carnival is over.” O’Farrell won Northcott, which later became Ku-ring-gai.
(11) Despite the significant parks like Villa Giulia and the Botanical Gardens in the centre of the city, Palermo is not a very green city.
(12) This week the British government, backed by nine of the world's largest environment and science bodies, including the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the Royal Society, the RSPB and Greenpeace, is expected to signal that the 210,000 sq km area around the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean will become the world's largest marine reserve .
(13) Royal Botanic Garden (0131-248 2971), 27 July to 2 October.
(14) Specific serum IgE to spices (determined in 41 patients with positive RAST to celery) up to class 3 were seen especially in patients with celery-mugwort or celery-birch-mugwort association, and concerned various botanical families.
(15) But to do Hakone justice, find a reasonably priced ryokan and take a couple of days to explore the volcanic geysers of Owakudani, the botanical gardens, the cherry blossom in spring and Hakone shrine on the shore of the lake.
(16) It evaluates the "pharmacological wisdom" of the local population, along with their symbolic use of the environment, to show how they construct medicinal plant classifications which follow a folk logic, but often conform as well to modern botanical classifications based on the principles of systematic botany or chemistry.
(17) In addition, preliminary results of trials with new experimental therapies, such as botanical and marine lipids, interferon-gamma, and monoclonal antibodies directed against leukocyte cell surface markers are discussed.
(18) He was a botanical collector, a philanthropist, and an active member of the Society of Friends.
(19) According to original botanical statistics, there are 42 species and 5 varieties belonging to 20 families called or used as Touguchao.
(20) The quantities of protein which can be extracted from green plants depend on a number of factors such as the botanical composition of the plant, its growth stage, topdressing and system of extraction.