How To Use Botanist In A Sentence
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These microbiologists, plant physiologists, soil scientists, and geobotanists shared an interest in pursuing experimental investigations of energy, matter, and life.
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Some ethnobotanists and anthropologists are convinced that root and tuber crops were among the first plants to be domesticated.
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The idea that cycads stem from Carboniferous so-called pteridosperms (‘seed ferns’ or seed plants with fern-like foliage) has long been popular with paleobotanists.
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I realized she was assessing my back muscles, judging their strength, reading them the way a botanist reads the rings of a tree's trunk.
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Botanists will divide the world of plants into hundreds of thousands of different species.
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When he retired from his work as an Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner, he decided to emulate English Botanist and Diatomist Dr. C. L. Odam and collect diatoms from tributaries.
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*] A dwarf shrub belonging to the genus STENOCHILUS, but new, was found here [**]; and we met also with a large spreading tree, from which we could bring away nothing that would enable botanists to describe it, except as to the texture and nervation of the leaves, which,
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
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Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists.
Ancient Egypt
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In fact, the name dianthus, coined by Greek botanist Theophrastus, is derived from the Greek words dios (divine) and anthos (flower).
What in Carnation?
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Apart from this, botanists are generally agreed that the concrescence of parts of the flower-whorls -- in the gynaeceum as the seed-covering, and in the corolla as the seat of attraction, more than in the androecium and the calyx -- is an indication of advance, as is also the concrescence that gives the condition of epigyny.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Its name and recognition long antedated this botanist.
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It might be the remote town below would take a different air, and my companion the botanist, with his educated observation, might almost see as much, and the train, perhaps, would be gone out of the picture, and the embanked straightness of the Ticino in the Ambri-Piotta meadows — that might be altered, but that would be all the visible change.
A Modern Utopia
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Some of the inspiration for this move came from botanists who had travelled to the tropics and other exotic locations.
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This text was assembled by two botanists at the Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Da Vinci was a painter, engineer, botanist, and an anatomist.
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They are scarcely more dissimilar than the primrose, the cowslip, and the oxlip, which have all been raised from the seed of the same plant, and are now regarded by botanists as varieties instead of species.
An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
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The team†™ s botanist, Gloria Hartigan – this skull is hers. â€
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Colin followed his father and paternal ancestors in being an enthusiastic amateur botanist.
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There are many species of the plant found in different parts of the world, and nearly a dozen kinds in the Himalaya Mountains themselves; but the one pointed out by Ossaroo was the _Aconitum ferox_ of botanists, the species from which the celebrated "bikh" poison of the
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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But the botanist that is desirous of wiping off this aspersion should be by no means content with a list of names; he should study plants philosophically, should investigate the laws of vegetation, should examine the powers and virtues of efficacious herbs, should promote their cultivation; and graft the gardener, the planter, and the husbandman, on the phytologist.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
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Leading a crew of Enlightenment thinkers, botanists, and linguists, Cook landed on the South Pacific Island in 1774, having already charted many of the surrounding island archipelagos.
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She's a botanist and spent several years researching in the tropics.
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Tour de force historical comedy about two bumbling botanists sent into the southern wilderness by Thomas Jefferson to look for something that isn't there.
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This practice is followed by the majority of paleoethnobotanists, especially when dealing with open-air sites in the Midwest.
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Endangered species of pawpaw trees in Florida, for example, grow what botanists call recalcitrant seeds, which don't survive drying and freezing in seed banks.
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In order to absorb the work, viewers must examine each individual cutout like botanists studying the leaves of a tree.
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[273-2] The Creeks had, according to Hawkins, not less than seven sacred plants; chief of them were the cassine yupon, called by botanists _Ilex vomitoria_, or _Ilex cassina_, of the natural order Aquifoliaceæ; and the blue flag, _Iris versicolor_, natural order Iridaceæ.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
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It is a tropical annual, long classified by botanists as a hibiscus but now considered a separate species.
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Charles became well-known as a botanist and conchologist.
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Bosco = Skene island dedicated to forests and lumber as well as pig raising botaniste = horticulturalist; makes decisions about which species of plants or animals to resurrect from cold storage; annually elected position buono = upland burzaka = waterproof rain slicker
SKENE GLOSSARY (SKENE TO ENGLISH)
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This is the succory (Cichorium Intybus of the botanists), described by Emerson as ‘succory to match the sky.’
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A founder of the native-plant movement, he was admired by botanists, nurserymen, arboretum and public garden directors, and authors.
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Clumps of these delicate little pinkish blossoms and abundant leaves, cuddled close to the cold earth of northern forests, usually conceal near the dry leaves or moss from which they spring blind flowers that never open -- cleistogamous the botanists call them -- flowers that lack petals, as if they were immature buds; that lack odor, nectar, and entrance; yet they are perfectly mature, self-fertilized, and abundantly fruitful.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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Botanists are not in complete accord about how many species exist.
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Lewis took home six bitterroot specimens, which he later gave to botanist Frederick Pursh, who named the genus after Lewis.
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Some botanists noted certain similarities such as floral organs in trimerous whorls uniting members of this order and ‘primitive’ monocotyledons (Alisma).
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She is an archaeologist and palaeoethnobotanist whose principal research interests are the investigation of plant domestication, the development of agricultural landscapes, and the emergence of complex societies in the Americas.
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Dutch botanist Martinus Bijerinck called this infectious fluid contagium vivum fluidum.
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The rest of us were just "botanists", "zoologists", or simply "biologists".
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When we dissect a leaf in its primal development, we find that its cells contain colorless globules, by botanists called chlorophyl or phyto-color; these undergo changes according as they are acted upon by light, oxygen, or other agents, producing green, yellow, red, and other tints.
Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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It was invented by an expat British botanist 80 years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Museum directors wanted to display a representative work by every great artist, zookeepers hoped to have every animal no matter how exotic, botanists every plant.
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Its unusual twisted stems are broad and flattened at their ends, a genetic condition botanists know as fasciation.
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However, a botanist who climbed many peaks in Colorado, Edwin James, ascended the mountain in 1820.
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Botanists are not in complete accord about how many species exist.
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Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
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While visiting Paris in 1738 Linnæus met and botanized with the two botanists whose ` ` natural method '' of classification was later to supplant his own ` ` artificial system. ''
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
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Other Mantidae, of the genus Gongylus, have the anterior part of the thorax dilated and coloured either white, pink, or purple; and they so closely resemble flowers that, according to Mr. Wood-Mason, one of them, having a bright violet-blue prothoracic shield, was found in Pegu by a botanist, and was for a moment mistaken by him for a flower.
Darwinism (1889)
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Last week a team of experts, led by representatives from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, found themselves in the remote south-west of China, alongside some of the country's top botanists.
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It is probably the idea of splitting or dilamination involved in the word chorisis that has led many English botanists to hesitate about accepting the notion.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Muir was primarily a botanist, a lover of trees and mountains, and his technical knowledge of wildlife was inconsiderable.
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The French botanists, following Dunal and Moquin, attribute an increase in the number of whorls in the corolla, and other parts of the flower, to a process which they call chorisis, and they consider the augmentation to be due to the splitting of one petal, for instance, into several; -- somewhat in the same manner as one may separate successive layers of talc one from the other.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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As the ethnobotanist Wade Davis explains in The Rainbow and the Serpent, his scientific exploration of zombie death in Haiti, a mind conditioned from birth to believe in curses will succumb to a “self-fulfilling prophesy” when a taboo or spiritual code is broken.
Spellbound
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Some ethnobotanists and anthropologists are convinced that root and tuber crops were among the first plants to be domesticated.
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= -- The formation of little bulbs upon the surfaces or edges of leaves, forming what are called viviparous leaves, has long been familiar to botanists amongst Alliums.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Kristin: "don't forget to smell the rosies" - from a botanist's view, the flowers being smelt are of a begonia.
Mamie - French Word-A-Day
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But don't miss a hike with botanist Stephane Rogliano through the maquis, the hypnotically fragrant cover of shrubs and wild herbs (mint, thyme, laurel, rosemary) that spreads over much of the island.
Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
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The great botanist predicted that use of his cardiograph will lead to vivisection on plants instead of animals.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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The botanist who spots a double flower in a field of single sees a chance mutation that has altered that plant's genetics.
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As well as being an ardent botanist, Mr Taylor is also something of a historian.
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He, after a lifetime in office, might be forgiven for expecting to have his advice taken seriously by a donnish, ineffectual Scottish peer who was chiefly known for the shapeliness of his legs and his patronage of botanists.
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The nine civilians on the expedition included two artists, two botanists, a conchologist, a geologist, two naturalists, and a philologist.
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Is there any blue half so pure, and deep, and tender, as that of the large crane's bill, the geranium pratense of the botanists?
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The botanist had turned against the sanctuary, and had rambled to himself about the seaplane and the albatross, confusing them in his mind.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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For the purpose of the present discourse, however, I shall recognise none of these titles save the last, which I shall employ as the equivalent of botanist, and I shall use the term zoology as denoting the whole doctrine of animal life, in contradistinction to botany, which signifies the whole doctrine of vegetable life.
Essays
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I see that I am standing beside an iron seat of poor design in that grey and gawky waste of asphalte — Trafalgar Square, and the botanist, with perplexity in his face, stares from me to a poor, shrivelled, dirt-lined old woman — my God! what a neglected thing she is! — who proffers a box of matches ....
A Modern Utopia
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In the late 1800's and early 1900's, botanists would travel by excursion boat down the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. to Marshall Hall and spend the day botanizing in nearby habitats.
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A botanist scaled a tree trunk to a height of three meters, and scraped from the trunk a sample of the tiny epiphyte for genetic sequencing.
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Plant taxonomy was given structure by the 18th century Swedish botanist Linnaeus: on the basis of their sexual organs (a system described by one critic as "loathsome harlotry"), every plant was assigned two Latin names – the first denoting its genus (or clan), the second denoting the species, often followed by the name or initial of the first person to "describe" it to science.
Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive'
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The receipt as drawn up by le Febre reads like a botanist's catalogue interpolated with oriental pearls, ambergris, and bezoardic stones, to add mystery.
Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography
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Apart from this, botanists are generally agreed that the concrescence of parts of the flower-whorls -- in the gynaeceum as the seed-covering, and in the corolla as the seat of attraction, more than in the androecium and the calyx -- is an indication of advance, as is also the concrescence that gives the condition of epigyny.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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This botanist observed and figured a flower of _Orchis palustris_ with tetramerous arrangement of parts, that is to say there were four outer segments to the perianth, four petals, of which two were lip-like, four stamens, three of which were rudimentary, and an ovary with four parietal placentæ. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The daughter of two pharmacists, Conte loaded up 15 credit cards and hired ethnobotanist Steven King, who amassed a library of 2,600 specimens to find ones with the greatest therapeutic powers.
One Pharma Entrepreneur's Never Ending Quest
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In 1982, an ethnobotanist and independent scholar announced that the chemical is a major component of the voodoo elixir that turns people into zombies.
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French, as in English, naturalist means, of course, sim - ply student of nature, and the analogy between the writer and the naturalist, specifically the botanist and zoologist, was ready at hand.
REALISM IN LITERATURE
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Tiselius also refined adsorption analysis, a method first used by the Russian botanist, Michail
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
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Dutch botanist Martinus Bijerinck called this infectious fluid contagium vivum fluidum.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the explorations of the islands, from the point of view of the flora, is that since 1869 the information relating to the flora has been provided by only two botanists.
San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests
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The New Botanic Garden was founded in 1967, when the geobotanist professor needed more space for his ecological field experiments.
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No botanist has possessed half their knowledge of plants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sarracenia belong to a whole creepy category of plants that botanists call carnivorous.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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It's the same at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where botanist Laura Jull said people notice but don't dwell on the smell of the campus ginkgoes.
Laudator Temporis Acti
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Not unlike the early explorers and their caravanserai of botanists, scientists and illustrators who meticulously documented the areas they visited, Martin and her colleagues made their own recordings of what they saw.
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The copy being sold was first bought by an early paleobotanist, Henry Witham, "subscriber number 11", after an apparently very boozy dinner.
World's most expensive book comes up for sale
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Botanists claim to recognize several species of the plant, and also to ally tobacco by a botanical consanguinity with other plants differing totally in appearance, properties and uses; connecting it with some containing powerful narcotic poisonous properties, such as belladonna, stramonium and hyoscyamus, and also with the innocent tomato and potato.
A Sketch of the Tobacco Interests In North Carolina. Being an Account of the Culture, Handling and Manufacture of the Staple; Together with Some Information Respecting the Principal Farmers, Manufacturing Establishments and Warehouses; with Statistics Exh
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So the hedges which most interest the historian are those which most fascinate the botanist.
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Until recently, botanists have met with similar impenetrability when asking these questions about orchids, the glamour queens of the plant kingdom.
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As a trained botanist she understood the vast pharmacopoeia of the plant kingdom, and might brew a herbal tea that could cure his fever.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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It is known to botanists by the name Lawsonia alba or inermis, a kind of privet, which grows 6 or 8 feet high.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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A botanist from the University of Bradford has discovered a rare plant fruiting for the first time in more than 130 years.
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Botanists are not in complete accord about how many species exist.
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Other female scientist characters who escape being mere sex objects in lab coat are Jodie Foster's Ellie Arroway in Contact, and Laura Dern's paleobotanist Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park.
Archive 2007-01-01
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A botanist scaled a tree trunk to a height of three meters, and scraped from the trunk a sample of the tiny epiphyte for genetic sequencing.
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At the latter end of last season, as was formerly noticed, the beacon was painted white, and from the bleaching of the weather and the sprays of the sea the upper parts were kept clean; but within the range of the tide the principal beams were observed to be thickly coated with a green stuff, the conferva of botanists.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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The celebrated botanist, Correa de Serra, told us that this tree abounds in the forests in the neighbourhood of Macapa, at the mouth of the Amazon; that it there bears the name of capucaya, and that the inhabitants gather the almonds, like those of the lecythis, to express the oil.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Following Augustin Pyranius De Candolle, botanists have applied the term cohesion to the coalescence of parts of the same organ or of members of the same whorl; for instance, to the union of the sepals in a gamosepalous calyx, or of the petals in a gamopetalous corolla.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Also on the summit are twisted-arm draba and James 'snowlover, two of the 15 alpine species identified as "rare" in the must-have book for amateur botanists, Rare Plants of Colorado.
Aspen Times - Top Stories
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They meet county park naturalists, ethnobotanists, and salmon preservationists and learn about the roles these people play in their communities.
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Borneo is a botanist's paradise, with its orchids and rafflesia, the world's largest flower.
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He celebrates the plantsmen and women, botanists and writers who have influenced gardening over the past fifty years.
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He was the botanist who earned acclaim with the discovery of dozens of rare plants in his beloved Scottish isles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Botanists have discovered for the first time that the plants are carnivorous predators who kill insects in order to ‘self-fertilise’ themselves.
Carnivorous tomatoes? Insect-eating petunias? Apparently so… « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture.
Italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Of the other finds, three small cylindrical objects from the Domestic Area gave us all -- archaeologists, conservators, archaeozoologist, archaeobotanist, geologists, and Depot Managers -- something to puzzle about.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Small Finds Conservation Report 1
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He was a kind of entomologist and botanist, a kind of philologist (one is a little astonished to find that rather curious and very charlatanish person and parson Sir Herbert
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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STENOCHILUS, but new, was found here78; and we met also with a large spreading tree, from which we could bring away nothing that would enable botanists to describe it, except as to the texture and nervation of the leaves, which, Sir William Hooker observes, resemble
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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There is one expression which you botanists often use (though, I think, not you individually often), which puts me in a passion -- viz., calling polleniferous flowers
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
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I shall be very anxious to know what your opinion is, particularly with regard to the tubes and all adhering filaments; the question now occupying botanists, being this, is the embryo derived directly from the boyau or is it derived from some parts of the ovulum?
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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In some areas of the Pacific Northwest, botanists say, the fungus has eliminated white bark pines entirely.
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Scottish botanists are flying to China to open a research station designed to educate locals and tourists on the value of the nation's plants.
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As a trained botanist she understood the vast pharmacopoeia of the plant kingdom, and might brew a herbal tea that could cure his fever.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Even botanists agree that hair-like roots of mosses can absorb water from the thin layer of soil.
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It's what botanists call a 'scandent' shrub, meaning it climbs and flops about on thin stems.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a botanist and a collector of rare plants.
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She sees her ability to bridge different worlds, such as that of herbalist and botanist, as the result of an interdisciplinary approach not offered by science, taxonomy, religion, or nature on its own.
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To two scientists and esteemed friends, astrobiologist David Grinspoon and paleobotanist Kirk Johnson: thanks for not only the deep well of knowledge, but also for the refreshing wind of the Long View.
The Whale Warriors
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Chase, Mary Agnes Meara, American botanist, widely regarded as an expert in agrostology, the study of grasses.
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On the other side, a grove of big cottonwood trees grew far apart, in what botanists call a gallery forest.
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Descriptive botanists recognise this occurrence in the case of leaves, and apply the epithet heterophyllous to plants possessed of these variable foliar characters.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The leaves were more like those of the yucca than the aloe -- indeed, so like the yucca was the whole tree, that, from what I afterwards saw of yucca-trees in Mexico and South America, I am convinced that these are very near the same kind -- that is, they were of the same habit and family, though, as I also learned afterwards, esteemed different by botanists.
Ran Away to Sea
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Even today, the original lineage of crop corn survives in a lanky grass called teosinte, which has tiny stubs of seeds that only a botanist could love.
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Following Augustin Pyranius De Candolle, botanists have applied the term cohesion to the coalescence of parts of the same organ or of members of the same whorl; for instance, to the union of the sepals in a gamosepalous calyx, or of the petals in a gamopetalous corolla.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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When Heinz Ellenberg, one of Europe's most influential geobotanists, travelled to the Peruvian Andes in 1957, he was looking for natural vegetation.
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One has not to be arboriculturist or botanist to appreciate the establishment; it is always entertaining, sometimes amusing, and appeals variously to the tastes of visitors.
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
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Morphological misfitsFirst identified 180 years ago in Sumatra by naturalist Sir Stamford Raffles, rafflesia has baffled botanists trying to pinpoint its close relatives.
Archive 2007-01-01
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No botanist has possessed half their knowledge of plants.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are the basis of that form of evolution which as lamarckism, and of late in sharp opposition to Darwin as neo-Lamarckism, has distinguished adherents among botanists, zoologists, and palaeontologists.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Botanists confirmed that the plant which appears in the foreground of Banks 'campaign advertisements was pampas, and not native toitoi as Banks had assumed.
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
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Having the same name presents no difficulties whatsoever to the zoologist nor to the botanist.
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Ken had met a paleobotanist named Dot whose research involved tapping into the collective unconscious of plants.
An Ancient Symbol for Fire
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Köchel was a botanist and mineralogist as well as musical scholar, but Mozart was the genius.
Follow the Money
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For more than three centuries botanists and mathematicians have marveled at the complex and beautiful spiral patterns that form as plants develop.
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The descriptions of sunbirds, the loving delineation of the topography of his fictional districts and the unconscious exactitude about the names of trees and plants are a hangover from Davidar's early training as a botanist.
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One of the first to show up was paleobotanist Hans Helbaek, an expert in fossil plant remains from the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen.
The Goddess and the Bull
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The botanist introduced a new species of plant to the region.
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Many paleobotanists believe that the earliest seed plants evolved from heterosporous Middle Devonian plants like the progymnosperms.
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He's a botanist, interested in this sort of thing -- and he's read about the Marquess of Bute's trials.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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The mashua is the root of a plant as yet unknown to botanists.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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He was the botanist who earned acclaim with the discovery of dozens of rare plants in his beloved Scottish isles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most botanists believe it is distantly related to verbenas.
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There can be no doubt that "camphire" is the Lawsonia alba of botanists, the henna of Arabian naturalists.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Look at the common oak, how closely it has been studied; yet a German author makes more than a dozen species out of forms, which are almost universally considered by other botanists to be varieties; and in this country the highest botanical authorities and practical men can be quoted to show that the sessile and pedunculated oaks are either good and distinct species or mere varieties.
II. Variation under Nature. Doubtful Species
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What do an astrophysicist, oceanic chemist, archaeologist, literary historian, and a paleobotanist have in common?
Harvard professor using DNA to unlock history's secrets
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Robin has created a series of photo guides for plants that even a nonbotanist like myself can use to identify at least some of the huge diversity of plants in tropical forests.
NYT > Home Page
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This opinion was opposed by Prof. Burrill and other eminent botanists, who claimed that other plants, as the fuchsia, are not at all acrid, although they contain raphides as plentifully as the Indian turnip.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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Afterwards - when he'd pocketed an estimated $250m thanks to his pot-bellied botanist pal - he became a major Hollywood force.
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The botanist, who studied the phenomenon of the caducity of blossom and young nuclei in plum trees, distinguishes three stages of this falling off of the nuclei.
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Through informative personal essays, combined with images taken during twenty-five years of exploration, ethnobotanist Davis celebrates traditional ways of living and thinking.
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A root yielding a grateful bitter was used in lieu of hops, the name of which I have forgotten; but the corn which yields the wort is the holcus spicatus of botanists.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7
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In 1735, Joseph de Jussieu, a French botanist, collected detailed information about the cinchona trees.
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Just over the aisle it's the seaside, complete with botanist, David Bellamy in full flow.
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Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists.
Ancient Egypt
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A curious sidelight on gourd-growing emerges from the reminiscences of Kinau Wilder, the niece of the botanist Gerrit Parmile Wilder.
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MacDonald made an occasional note, while Holmes sat absorbed, with the expression of surprised and rever - ent admiration with which the botanist surveys the rare and precious bloom.
Chennai
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The botanist's outpourings were a mix of empirical science, homespun philosophy and despair at human nature.
PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
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Among scientists, botanists especially had grasped the potential of the new art of photography for recording complex scientific specimens.
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Colonials such as the Pennsylvania nurseryman John Bartram collected plants and seeds for the growing network of botanists and plant enthusiasts in Europe.
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Botanists found it included cornflowers and mayweed that were fresh at the time the decoration was made.
Tutankhamun Died In a Hunting Accident | Impact Lab
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They're what botanists would call an indicator species.
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In William Turner's "Grete Herbal" 1576, the first popular, English-language guide to the vegetable kingdom, the botanist was blunt on the matter of mushroom taxonomy.
What's Magic About Mushrooms
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Some of the inspiration for this move came from botanists who had travelled to the tropics and other exotic locations.
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In the past, botanists attempted to classify these kinds, giving them varietal names such as Cocos nucifera var typica.
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Last week a team of experts, led by representatives from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, found themselves in the remote south-west of China, alongside some of the country's top botanists.
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For the purposes of the present discourse, however, I shall recognise none of these titles save the last, which I shall employ as the equivalent of botanist, and I shall use the term zoology as denoting the whole doctrine of animal life, in contradistinction to botany, which signifies the whole doctrine of vegetable life.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
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We closely cooperate with Russian, European and Northamerican geobotanists and landscape ecologists.
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Must we geneticists become bacteriologists, physiological chemists and physicists, simultaneously with being zoologists and botanists?
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Avinoam Danin, a botanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem claims he has identified pollen from the tumbleweed Gundelia tournefortii and a bean caper on the shroud.
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Greece is said to be a botanist's dream.
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Local botanists tell me that this plant has only been found once within the city boundary since 1970.
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Best known as an anthropologist and ethnobotanist, Wade has made 6,000 or so botanical collections while living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight South American countries.
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Though primarily a botanist, he demonstrated a broad interest in other subjects, as well.
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When William Withering, a Shropshire physician and botanist, heard how a man with dropsy had recovered after drinking a herbal medicine that had been brewed from foxglove, he had to know exactly how the plant had worked.
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Botanists, twitchers and wildlife-watchers in Scotland say last week's record-breaking heatwave fooled numerous species into believing winter had already passed.
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The botanist explained this to his companions, by saying that these were the male plants, and the growing ones the females; for hemp is what is termed by botanists "dioecious" -- that, is, having male flowers on one plant, and female ones upon another.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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As an ethnobotanist specializing in the study of traditional uses of plants, I knew that in one remote part of the world, the script writer's fantasy was my reality.
Michael Balick, Ph.D.: Sakau: Powerful Plant From the Pacific Islands
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Centaury varies a great deal according to) its situation, and some botanists enumerate several distinct species.
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Prohibited from visiting physically, Ms. della Dora has had to travel to "the immutable cone of Athos" on the crinkly backs of maps, etchings and photographs, and through the masculine accounts of poets, theologians, botanists, bibliophiles, art historians and escaped World War II POWs.
A Fossil With Flesh
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black broth" controversy -- How Conopios introduced coffee drinking at Oxford -- The first English coffee house in Oxford -- Two English botanists on coffee_
All About Coffee
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Botanists have classically viewed this polymorphism as an outcrossing mechanism, since in most situations reciprocal morphs can only cross-fertilize.
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Alaska, the last frontier, is a premier destination for birders, botanists, and wildlife watchers.
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Most botanists believe the place to be W. Asia and the main ancestral wild plant to be Raphanus raphanistrum, a type of charlock, but it is likely that other wild ancestors would have crossed with this.
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Not all collectors of flora began life as gardeners or botanists.
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Japanese knotweed, which is native to Japan, Taiwan and China, was introduced by botanists into Britain in the 19th century as an ornamental plant.
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Dandelions are so hard to identify that many botanists will record them as the aggregate.
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The Index contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.
Online Database: Index to American Botanical Literature (Searchable) « ResourceShelf
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The silver-fir, of a whitish colour, like rosemary under the leaf, is distinguished from the rest, by the pectinal shape of it: The cones not so large as the _picea_, grow also upright, and this they call the female: For I find botanists not unanimously agreed about the sexes of trees.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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The British botanist this week came out in support of the anti-wind camp.
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It starts with shorter days, which triggers a whole series of processes, says Ed Hedborn, a botanist who manages plant records at the Morton Arboretum outside Chicago in Lisle, Ill. With less daylight, trees and other plants stop making chlorophyll, whose absence unmasks the yellow, orange and brown hues of the pigment carotenoid, which is always in the leaves, but hidden by the green.
Fall in the Midwest: Colors are subtle but lasting
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A botanist who lived two doors down, a lovely man, taught him all the Latin names for the different woods.
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Afterwards - when he'd pocketed an estimated $250m thanks to his pot-bellied botanist pal - he became a major Hollywood force.
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In the field these two forms looked like distinct taxa, and we wondered if earlier botanists were not correct in recognizing this material as either varietally or specifically distinct.
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He eventually left to become curator of the herbarium at the California Academy in San Francisco and has become a renowned ethnobotanist.
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I just watched this 2003 TED Talk video lecture by Wade Davis, the pioneering ethnobotanist and anthropologist who has lived with an amazing array of indigenous cultures around the world.
Boing Boing
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As a result, he came into contact with the expedition subscribers (they'd paid money towards the expedition in return for a share of the seeds collected), botanists and plantsmen.
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In fact, teosinte is so unlike modern corn, 19th century botanists did not even consider the two to be related.
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Because these are what botanists term polygamous flowers, _i. e._, some of them are perfect, containing both stamens and pistils; some are male only; others, again, are female.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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John Banks 'billboard featuring what botanists have confirmed as pampas grass, not native toitoi as Banks had assumed.
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
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The inflorescence, or flowering part of the stem, is terminal, loosely branching in that form which botanists term a panicle, with long, linear floral leaves or bractes at the origin of each division.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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Following Augustin Pyranius De Candolle, botanists have applied the term cohesion to the coalescence of parts of the same organ or of members of the same whorl; for instance, to the union of the sepals in a gamosepalous calyx, or of the petals in a gamopetalous corolla.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
