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palaeobotanist

palaeobotanist is the alternative spelling of paleobotanist.

Meaning of paleobotanist

Noun

paleobotanist (plural paleobotanists)

  1. A botanist who specializes in paleobotany; someone who studies plant fossils.
    • How and when the earliest plants made the first move on to land is always a hot topic for palaeobotanists.2018 March 23, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian

Forms of palaeobotanist

pluralpalaeobotanists

Origin of palaeobotanist

From palaeo- + botanist.

Questions about palaeobotanist

What is palaeobotanist the alternative spelling of?
Palaeobotanist is the alternative spelling of paleobotanist.

Words near palaeobotanist in the dictionary

  1. palaeobiomechanical
  2. palaeobiomechanics
  3. palaeobotanic
  4. palaeobotanical
  5. palaeobotanically
  6. palaeobotanist
  7. palaeobotanists
  8. palaeobotany
  9. palaeoburrow
  10. palaeoburrows
  11. palaeocastorid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palaeobotanist (page history and authors); paleobotanist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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