botanist
English Thesaurus
1. a biologist specializing in the study of plants (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | mycologist, |
| definition | : | a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | pomologist, |
| definition | : | someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | propagator, |
| definition | : | someone who propagates plants (as under glass) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | banks, sir joseph banks, |
| definition | : | English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | brown, robert brown, |
| definition | : | Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | carver, george washington carver, |
| definition | : | United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cohn, ferdinand julius cohn, |
| definition | : | German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | curtis, william curtis, |
| definition | : | English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | asa gray, gray, |
| definition | : | United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | antoine laurent de jussieu, jussieu, |
| definition | : | French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gregor mendel, johann mendel, mendel, |
| definition | : | Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john tradescant, tradescant, |
| definition | : | English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | botany, phytology, |
| definition | : | the branch of biology that studies plants (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | botany, phytology, |
| definition | : | the branch of biology that studies plants (noun.cognition) |
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