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- noun Plural form of
botanist .
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Examples
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The word botanists use for this short, downy hair is “pubescence.”
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The word botanists use for this short, downy hair is “pubescence.”
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The word botanists use for this short, downy hair is “pubescence.”
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Vigna unguiculata, at least according to botanists, is a cousin to the Asian Vigna species.
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Vigna unguiculata, at least according to botanists, is a cousin to the Asian Vigna species.
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The pretty little dew-drop, Dalibarda repens of botanists, is also in blossom – a delicate, modest little flower, opening singly among dark green leaves, which look much like those of the violet; it is one of our most common wood-plants; the leaves frequently remain green through the winter.
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These are not simply "botanists" -- though botanical knowledge they must needs possess -- but, rather, what has hitherto been termed "botanical collectors."
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A few others teach science and art, or are locally known as botanists, geologists, amateurs of music, or amateurs of some other art.
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He had a tin box, such as botanists use, hanging about his neck.
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I want you to call botanists, climatologists, find out what is going on.’
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