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 →

2) Botany is the science that botanists do. tree →

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 →
• The botanist found a new kind of orchid. tree →
• We were botanists for the day and collected leaves. tree →
• Botanists work in gardens, labs and rainforests. tree →
• The botanist explained how seeds spread. tree →
• Joseph Banks was a botanist on a long sea voyage. tree →
• What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «botanist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.