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noun
A person engaged in botany, the scientific study of plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: botanologer, botanologist, phytobiologist, phytologist, plant scientist
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a biologist specializing in the study of plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: biologist, life scientist
Narrower terms: mycologist, pomologist, propagator, Banks, Sir Joseph Banks, Brown, Robert Brown, Carver, George Washington Carver, Cohn, Ferdinand Julius Cohn, Curtis, William Curtis, deVries, De Vries, Hugo deVries, Hugo De Vries, Gray, Asa Gray, Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Linnaeus, Carolus Linnaeus, Carl von Linne, Karl Linne, Mendel, Gregor Mendel, Johann Mendel, Tradescant, John Tradescant
History
Etymology tree English botany Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English botanist From botany + -ist.
Across languages
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