paleobotanist
noun
paleobotanist is a noun meaning “A botanist who specializes in paleobotany; someone who studies plant fossils” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-E-O-B-O-T-A-N-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paleobotanist is paleobotanists.
What does paleobotanist mean?
noun
- 1
A botanist who specializes in paleobotany; someone who studies plant fossils.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paleobotanist
- paleobotanists plural
- palaeobotanist
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paleobotanist?
Paleobotanist appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does paleobotanist come from?
From paleo- + botanist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).