botanist
/ˈbɒt(ə)nɪst
/noun
An expert in or student of the scientific study of plants: a botanist announced he’d bred a new and beautiful variety of orchid...
- He is a botanist and a collector of rare plants.
- In order to absorb the work, viewers must examine each individual cutout like botanists studying the leaves of a tree.
- In some areas of the Pacific Northwest, botanists say, the fungus has eliminated white bark pines entirely.