Candolle

[ kahn-dawl ]

noun

1. Au·gus·tin Py·rame de [oh-g, y, s-, tan, pee-, ram, d, uh], 1778–1841, Swiss botanist.

Candolle

/ kɑ̃dɔl /

noun

1. CandolleAugustin Pyrame de17781841MSwissSCIENCE: botanist Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification

Example Sentences

To the celebrated French botanist Alphonse de Candolle he wrote:

From Time

However, while de Candolle’s results showed the importance of environmental conditions on the average population, his data did little to explain individual differences within a population.

From Scientific American

Alphonse de Candolle starved plants, with the result of producing better blooms, and found that seedlings from these were also above the average in luxuriance of blossom, but in these experiments the effects of selection during the starvation, and of direct effect on the nutrition of the seeds, were not eliminated.

From Project Gutenberg

At Geneva are three large collections—Augustin Pyrame de Candolle’s, containing the typical specimens of the Prodromus, a large series of monographs of the families of flowering plants, Benjamin Delessert’s fine series at the Botanic Garden, and the Boissier Herbarium, which is rich in Mediterranean and Oriental plants.

From Project Gutenberg

Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; Ð a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

From Project Gutenberg