palaeobotanistpaleobotanistn.
/ˌpalɪəʊˈbɒtənɪst/, /ˌpeɪlɪəʊˈbɒtənɪst/, U.S. /ˈˌpeɪlioʊˈbɑtn̩əst/ An expert in or student of palaeobotany.
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the world > plants > botany > [noun] > specific branches or aspects of botany > one knowledgeable in
fossil botanist1832
phytogeographer1859
palaeophytologist1869
neo-botanist1870
palaeobotanist1876
phytopalaeontologist1882
plant geographer1883
phytopathologist1886
plant physiologist1888
plant pathologist1894
phytoecologist1899
phytochemist1914
phytosociologist1926
astrobotanist1952
archaeobotanist1954
1876 Rec. Geol. Surv. India 9 83 The affinities between the plants of the Australian coal-bearing rocks and those of the jurassic beds of Europe..have been pointed out by all palæo-botanists.
1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) ii. 25 He pronounced the dung to be sloth dung. But it was a paleobotanist who..had determined that what the sloth had for dinner that day a million years ago was a bite off a Joshua tree.
1986 R. Barker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) ix. 182 Paleobotanists theorize about new insect groups which might have co-evolved with the flowers in Late Cretaceous times.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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