Botanist
['bɒtənɪst] or ['bɑtənɪst]
Definition
(n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
Edited by Erna
Examples
- To this substance of energy and life, common in the minute plant cell and the animal cell, the German botanist, Hugo von Mohl, about fifty years ago gave the name protoplasm. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This principle has been broadly confessed by some naturalists to be the true one; and by none more clearly than by that excellent botanist, Aug. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He was intent on classifi cation, and might be compared in that respect with the naturalist Buffon, or the botanist Linn?u s. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Back in the seventies an English botanist, Wickham by name, smuggled many Hevea seeds out of Brazil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Don't the botanists put it highest in the line of development? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The same author as well as some botanists, have further remarked that multiple parts are extremely liable to vary in structure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He has observed it even between closely related forms (as Matthiola annua and glabra) which many botanists rank only as varieties. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Several of the best botanists, such as Mr. Bentham and others, have strongly insisted on their arbitrary value. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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