A surname, most notably that of Adolf Engler, the famous German botanist; may also refer to a person who engles (if engle were a verb).
As a German surname, possibly from eng (narrow, Old High German) + -ler (agent suffix meaning one who does something). Engler is a biographical reference to the botanist.
Adolf Engler revolutionized plant classification in the 1880s, and his name lives on in botanical nomenclature—the 'Engler system' changed how scientists understood flowering plant evolution!
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