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Definition of "ethnobotanist" [ethnobotanist]

  • A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany (noun)

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Use "ethnobotanist" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."