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Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton

Pronunciation: /ˈhʊkə/
Definition of Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
  • (1817–1911), English botanist and pioneer in plant geography. Hooker applied Darwin’s theories to plants and, with George Bentham (1800–84), he produced a work on classification, Genera Plantarum (1862–83).

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