Definitions

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  • noun A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany

Etymologies

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ethno- +‎ botanist

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Examples

  • 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 2010

  • 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 Karen Palmer 2010

  • 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 Helen Coster 2010

  • 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 Ph.D. Michael Balick 2010

  • 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 Helen Coster 2010

  • 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 Helen Coster 2010

  • 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 2008

  • 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 Karen Palmer 2010

  • 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 Karen Palmer 2010

  • 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 2010

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