Word.ws English Dictionary

phytologist

phytologist noun: someone skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.

Noun

phytologist (plural phytologists)

  1. Someone skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.
    • our learned phytologist Mr. Ray1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...

Forms of phytologist

pluralphytologists

Origin of phytologist

From phyto- + -logist.

Words formed from phytologist

Questions about phytologist

What does phytologist mean?
Phytologist means someone skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.
What part of speech is phytologist?
Phytologist is a noun.
What is the plural of phytologist?
The plural of phytologist is phytologists.

Words near phytologist in the dictionary

  1. phytoliths
  2. phytologic
  3. phytological
  4. phytologically
  5. phytologies
  6. phytologist
  7. phytologists
  8. phytology
  9. phytols
  10. phytomania
  11. phytomarker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phytologist (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: “phytologist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phytologist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.