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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is versed in phytology, or the science of plants; a botanist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.

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  • noun One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.

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  • noun a biologist specializing in the study of plants

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Examples

  • To the orthodox zoologist, phytologist and geologist, such a suggestion savoured of madness; they either took refuge in a contemptuous silence, or condescended only to reply: Had one visited the Garden of Eden during Creation, one would have found that, in the morning, man was not, while in the evening he was! — morning and evening bearing their newly established significance of geological epochs.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • But the botanist that is desirous of wiping off this aspersion should be by no means content with a list of names; he should study plants philosophically, should investigate the laws of vegetation, should examine the powers and virtues of efficacious herbs, should promote their cultivation; and graft the gardener, the planter, and the husbandman, on the phytologist.

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

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    UH Watch 2010

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    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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