botanist | | |
n. (person) | 1. botanist, phytologist, plant scientist | a biologist specializing in the study of plants. |
| ~ biologist, life scientist | (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms. |
| ~ 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). |
| ~ banks, sir joseph banks | English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820). |
| ~ robert brown, 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). |
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