phytologist

Noun
  1. A biologist specializing in the study of plants (synset 109887676)
    is a type of: biologist, life scientist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms
    subtypes:
    • mycologist - a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi
    • pomologist - someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees
    • propagator - someone who propagates plants (as under glass)
    specific instances:
    • banks, sir joseph banks - English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
    • brown, robert brown - Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
    • carver, george washington carver - United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)
    • cohn, ferdinand julius cohn - German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
    • curtis, william curtis - English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)
    • de vries, devries, hugo de vries, hugo devries - Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)
    • asa gray, gray - United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
    • antoine laurent de jussieu, jussieu - French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)
    • carl von linne, carolus linnaeus, karl linne, linnaeus - Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)
    • gregor mendel, johann mendel, mendel - Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)
    • john tradescant, tradescant - English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)
    same as: botanist, plant scientist

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