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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

botaniste

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

Noun.

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants or vegetables,their structure, and generic and specific differences.

The botanist is he who can affix similar names to similar vegetables, and different names to different ones, so as to be intelligible to every one.