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  • noun Plural form of botanist.

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Examples

  • The word botanists use for this short, downy hair is “pubescence.”

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The word botanists use for this short, downy hair is “pubescence.”

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The word botanists use for this short, downy hair is “pubescence.”

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Vigna unguiculata, at least according to botanists, is a cousin to the Asian Vigna species.

    Beans: A History and My Legume Love Affair Ninth Helping Round-Up Laurie Constantino 2009

  • Vigna unguiculata, at least according to botanists, is a cousin to the Asian Vigna species.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Laurie Constantino 2009

  • 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.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • These are not simply "botanists" -- though botanical knowledge they must needs possess -- but, rather, what has hitherto been termed "botanical collectors."

    The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

  • A few others teach science and art, or are locally known as botanists, geologists, amateurs of music, or amateurs of some other art.

    Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women Arnold Bennett 1899

  • He had a tin box, such as botanists use, hanging about his neck.

    The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

  • I want you to call botanists, climatologists, find out what is going on.’

    Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003

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