CURTIS

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

1. English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)

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

• CURTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Curtis; William Curtis

Instance hypernyms:

botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)

 Context examples 

In 1918, astronomer Heber Curtis first noticed "a curious straight ray" extending from the galaxy's center.

(The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole, NASA)

Spontaneous tumors of the thymus (Dunning and Curtis 1946, Dunning et al 1947)

(COP, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

The results pave the way for early detection of upcoming flares in disease activity — which can then be aggressively treated — and potentially for new biochemical therapeutic opportunities to encourage complete remission of IBD, said Curtis Huttenhower, a computational biologist at the Harvard Chan School and the Broad Institute, and senior author of the study.

(New findings reveal how microbiome is disrupted during disease flare-ups, National Science Foundation)

Laurie bit his lips, and turning a little from the pensive speaker, read the following document, with praiseworthy gravity, considering the spelling: I, Amy Curtis March, being in my sane mind, go give and bequeethe all my earthly property—viz. to wit:—namely

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)