noun
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
• Syn: ↑Ferdinand Julius Cohn
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑botanist, ↑phytologist, ↑plant scientist
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/kohn/, n.
1. Edwin Joseph, 1892-1953, U.S. chemist and researcher on blood proteins.
2. Ferdinand Julius /ferr"dn and' joohl"yeuhs/; Ger. /ferdd"di nahnt' yooh"lee oos'/, 1828-98, German botanist and bacteriologist.
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[kōn]Ferdinand Julius (1828 - 98), German botanist. A founder of bacteriology, he was the first to devise a systematic classification of bacteria into genera and species
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