botanist

[ bot-n-ist ]

/ ˈbɒt n ɪst /

a specialist in botany.

Origin of botanist

1675–85; botan(ism) botany (< Greek botanismós, equivalent to botán(ē) plant + -ismos -ism) + -ist

The renowned 20th-century American botanist Luther Burbank first made a name for himself when he invented the Burbank potato.

The Secrets of Hybrid Fruit |Stacey Slate |January 22, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
In “Inverness,” a botanist finds something like faith through an encounter with an obsessed Loch Ness Monster hunter.

Great Reads for the Holidays |Taylor Antrim |December 25, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
But he was unable to go, so that no botanist and also no zoologist made the voyage.

Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects |James R. McClymont
A man who is only a botanist, shuts himself out from all the truest and deepest pleasures of knowledge.

The Story of the Herschels |Anonymous

Erik Acharius, an eminent Swedish physician and botanist, died, aged 82.

The Every Day Book of History and Chronology |Joel Munsell
Peter Collinson died; an eminent English botanist and natural historian.

The Every Day Book of History and Chronology |Joel Munsell
Named for Samuel Brewer, an English botanist or amateur of the 18th century.

The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States |Asa Gray