(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.