1. a scientist who studies the relationships between plants and the cultures and peoples who use them, especially for food, medicine, and rituals
Usage: academic/scientific field; countable noun

Examples

• The ethnobotanist documented how indigenous communities used native plants for healing.
• Dr. Chen, an ethnobotanist, spent years researching traditional medicinal plants in the Amazon.
• Ethnobotanists work to preserve knowledge about plants before it is lost to cultural change.
• The ethnobotanist interviewed elders to learn about plants used in ceremonial practices.
• Many ethnobotanists collaborate with indigenous groups to study and protect traditional plant knowledge.
• As an ethnobotanist, she combined fieldwork with laboratory analysis of plant compounds.