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Answer for the clue "A botanist who specializes in the study of fungi ", 10 letters:
mycologist

Word definitions for mycologist in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mycologist \My*col"o*gist\, n. One who is versed in, or who studies, mycology.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who studies, professes or practices mycology.

Usage examples of mycologist.

Aunt Annie--the one who was a mycologist --continued to feel that it was unwise to encourage the poor young man, but Dr Carr was not sorry to think that her daughter might be having a break in that most beautiful of cities.

Kat, and I did not feel obliged to perform any favors for this alter ego you had fabricated to permit the mycologist to study writing undetected.

The mycologist van Schoening had come from Moscow, a consultant brought in to study the fungoid vegetation.

A lot of mycologists work in industry, making cheeses and yogurts and the like, so it is hard to say how many are actively involved in research, but we can safely take it that there are more species of fungi to be found than there are people to find them.

Their behaviour was something that had fascinated mycologists, zoologists, and cell biologists for years.

This subject has been exhausted by many able mycologists, and, excepting the mere mention of some mushrooms that are edible, the authors have abstained from this part of the subject.

Anyway, they sent down the whole works: hunters, trappers, collectors, zoologists, botanists, agriculturists, plant specialists, mycologists, parasitologists, marine biologists .