botanist

From botany +‎ -ist.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒt.ən.ɪst/, [ˈbɒt.n̩.ɪst]

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botanist (plural botanists)

1. (botany) A person engaged in botany, the scientific study of plants.

   Synonyms: botanologer, botanologist, phytobiologist, phytologist, plant scientist

   • 2020, S.S Haldeman, Pennsylvania Dutch, page 9:

     A German botanist gave 'Gandoge' as the locality of an American plant; a package sent by express to 'Sevaber' (an English name), and a letter posted to the town of 'Scur E Quss, Nu Yourck,' arrived safely; and I have seen a handboard directing the traveller to the English-named town of 'Bintgrof'.

   • 2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It’s one of the world’s longest-running experiments, having already gone on for 142 years. And the botanists in East Lansing hope that it will last for at least another 80.

• antibots

Borrowed from French botaniste.

• IPA^(key): /ˌboː.taːˈnɪst/

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• Hyphenation: bo‧ta‧nist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

botanist m (plural botanisten, feminine botaniste)

1. (uncommon) botanist

   Synonym: botanicus

Borrowed from French botaniste.

• IPA^(key): /bo.taˈnist/

botanist m (plural botaniști, feminine equivalent botanistă)

1. botanist

   Synonym: fitolog

• plantă

• “botanist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

botanist c

1. an (amateur) botanist

• botanik
• botaniker
• botanisera
• botanisk

• botanist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• botanist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)