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a detective whose suspects don't run but quietly outlive everyone in the room
means A scientist who studies plants — their structure, growth, classification, and life — whether in the field, the lab, or the herbarium.
from From 'botany,' which traces back to the Greek 'botane,' meaning pasture, grass, or fodder — the green stuff grazing animals ate. That root grew into 'botanikos,' 'of plants,' and entered English in the 17th century. So a botanist is, etymologically, a keeper of the things that grow in the meadow.
- pressed empire
- Herbaria store millions of plants flattened for centuries
- name claim
- Discover a species, you get to name it
- deadly fieldwork
- Collectors died on cliffs chasing single rare ferns
- slow witness
- Some studied specimens predate the United States
- latin fluent
- They speak a language no one's spoken aloud
barbara mcclintock — discovered genetic transposition in maize in 1950, won nobel prize in 1983
joseph banks — chief botanist on captain cook's endeavour voyage 1768-1771, catalogued thousands of species
george washington carver — tuskeegee institute scientist who developed 300+ uses for peanuts in early 1900s