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A Love of Plants
to damage something to make it useless
v.
destroyed
The fires destroyed the California Academy of Sciences.
n. a group of things of the same type
This science museum had many important collections.
collections
About one hundred thousand plant samples
burned in the fires. Some plant samples were
saved, however, thanks to Alice Eastwood.
n. a person who studies plants
She was a botanist, a scientist who studies
botanist
plants. She worked at the museum for
many years.
Alice Eastwood
(1859–1953)
Unit 8 | A Love of Plants
