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botanist

noun as in naturalist

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“He heard I was coming and rolled over like a 2-month-old baby,” said Richard, a gray-bearded botanist from Staten Island.

The renowned 20th-century American botanist Luther Burbank first made a name for himself when he invented the Burbank potato.

In “Inverness,” a botanist finds something like faith through an encounter with an obsessed Loch Ness Monster hunter.

Herr Schleierer, a botanist, assured us that he once found upon one tree six and thirty different kinds of creepers and parasites.

It was dead, insofar as he knew, and apparently useless except perhaps as a club, but the botanist was delighted to receive it.

The whole procedure—taking the cosmic view—was almost pointless, but it would make the botanist happy, at least.

Named after Mr. Allan Cunningham, the botanist of the expedition.

A botanist of note, he had a remarkable conservatory where he cultivated geraniums only.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to botanist, such as: biologist, conservationist, ecologist, environmentalist, zoologist, and preservationist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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