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# botanist

«botanist» in Mova's school dictionary: **a scientist who studies plants: how they grow, where they…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a botanist, botanists)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A botanist is a scientist who studies plants: how they grow, where they live and how they are related. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#m1)

2) Botany is the science that botanists do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, children act like botanists when they sort leaves, grow seeds and name the parts of a flower. History lessons may mention botanists who travelled on ships to collect plants, such as Joseph Banks on Captain Cook's voyage to Australia. Phrases: «a famous botanist», «plant collector».

### examples

- A botanist studies plants and flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x1)
- The botanist found a new kind of orchid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x2)
- We were botanists for the day and collected leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x3)
- Botanists work in gardens, labs and rainforests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x4)
- The botanist explained how seeds spread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x5)
- Joseph Banks was a botanist on a long sea voyage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x6)
- What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/#x7)

### note

Countable. Related words: botany (the subject), botanical (adjective, as in «botanical garden»). Stress: BOT-an-ist.

### In the corpora

- [Botanists call tomatoes fruits because they grow from the flower and hold seeds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/34-teachers-who-listen-teachers-who-get-cross-and-when-the-teacher-is-right-after-all/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «botanist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.