Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of ethnobiology that studies the plant lore and agricultural customs of a people.
- noun The study of such lore and customs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Botany in its relations to the economic uses of plants by different races, especially by aborigines or primitive races.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany, sociology The scientific study of the relationships between
people andplants
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sounds cool enough, often involves reading in ethnobotany, but the main two bosses are just the sort of "whitist" types who get excited when there's a slight chance that the earliest people to come to the Americas might have been from Europe, probably because it might invalidate indigenous legal claims.
$6.50 2005
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We need people that go into other cultures and survey their uses of natural compounds (a field called ethnobotany).
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Using Herbs to Comfort Veterinary Cancer Patients 2010
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"The science that explores the human uses of plants is a branch of botany known as ethnobotany," he said.
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"She was fascinated by the interaction of plants and people, taking an approach that today would be called ethnobotany"
Women in Science 2008
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Veterinarians who use herbs and homeopathics study the ethnobotany, biochemistry, and energetic effects of these agents and then use various systems to combine them together in ways that assist nature in recreating or establishing better conditions of health and well being.
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Veterinarians Team With Mother Nature for Better Results Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010
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Actually plant medicines are daily being discovered in wild places all over the world, usually by ethnobotany grad students interviewing elderly aboriginals and collecting samples for analysis in university labs thousands of miles away.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Actually plant medicines are daily being discovered in wild places all over the world, usually by ethnobotany grad students interviewing elderly aboriginals and collecting samples for analysis in university labs thousands of miles away.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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You should look at a book on ethnobotany, particularly one with info from Plains Indians.
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Actually plant medicines are daily being discovered in wild places all over the world, usually by ethnobotany grad students interviewing elderly aboriginals and collecting samples for analysis in university labs thousands of miles away.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Scientists in the field of ethnobotany study how different cultures use plants for a variety of purposes.
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Veterinarians Team With Mother Nature for Better Results Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010
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