BOTANIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does botanist mean? 

• BOTANIST (noun)
  The noun BOTANIST has 1 sense:

1. a biologist specializing in the study of plants

  Familiarity information: BOTANIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTANIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A biologist specializing in the study of plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

botanist; phytologist; plant scientist

Hypernyms ("botanist" is a kind of...):

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "botanist"):

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))

Instance hyponyms:

Banks; Sir Joseph Banks (English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820))

Brown; Robert Brown (Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858))

Carver; George Washington Carver (United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943))

Cohn; Ferdinand Julius Cohn (German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants)

Curtis; William Curtis (English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799))

De Vries; deVries; Hugo De Vries; Hugo deVries (Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935))

Asa Gray; Gray (United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888))

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu; Jussieu (French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836))

Carl von Linne; Carolus Linnaeus; Karl Linne; Linnaeus (Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778))

Gregor Mendel; Johann Mendel; Mendel (Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884))

John Tradescant; Tradescant (English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638))

Derivation:

botany (the branch of biology that studies plants)

 Context examples 

There is a dry bituminous wood upon the plateau—a species of araucaria, according to our botanist—which is always used by the Indians for torches.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We found that, contrary to previous scientific knowledge, unhealthy trees have a higher likelihood of being female, and the size of the tree doesn't seem to influence what sex a tree is, said lead author Jennifer Blake-Mahmud, a botanist at Princeton University.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

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.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)