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# botanist

noun (a botanist, botanists)

«botanist» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A botanist is a scientist who studies plants: how they grow, where they live and how they are related. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#m1)
2. Botany is the science that botanists do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons, children act like botanists when they sort leaves, grow seeds and name the parts of a flower. History lessons may mention botanists who travelled on ships to collect plants, such as Joseph Banks on Captain Cook's voyage to Australia. Phrases: «a famous botanist», «plant collector».

### Examples

- A botanist studies plants and flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x1)
- The botanist found a new kind of orchid. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x2)
- We were botanists for the day and collected leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x3)
- Botanists work in gardens, labs and rainforests. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x4)
- The botanist explained how seeds spread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x5)
- Joseph Banks was a botanist on a long sea voyage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x6)
- What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Related words: botany (the subject), botanical (adjective, as in «botanical garden»). Stress: BOT-an-ist.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «botanist» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«botanist» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/botanist.html) on Mova free.