Word.ws English Dictionary

paleobotanist

paleobotanist noun: a botanist who specializes in paleobotany; someone who studies plant fossils.

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 paleobotanist

pluralpaleobotanists
alternative formpalaeobotanist

Origin of paleobotanist

From paleo- + botanist.

Questions about paleobotanist

What does paleobotanist mean?
Paleobotanist means a botanist who specializes in paleobotany; someone who studies plant fossils.
What part of speech is paleobotanist?
Paleobotanist is a noun.
What is the plural of paleobotanist?
The plural of paleobotanist is paleobotanists.

Words near paleobotanist in the dictionary

  1. paleobiotas
  2. paleobotanic
  3. paleobotanical
  4. paleobotanically
  5. paleobotanies
  6. paleobotanist
  7. paleobotanists
  8. paleobotany
  9. paleoburrow
  10. paleoburrows
  11. paleocaliche

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “paleobotanist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paleobotanist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.