Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science or study of plants.
- noun A book or scholarly work on this subject.
- noun The plant life of a particular area.
- noun The characteristic features and biology of a particular kind of plant or plant group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See
plant . - noun A book which treats of the science of botany.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The scientific study of
plants , a branch ofbiology . Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant. - noun The plant life, or the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
- noun countable A botanical
treatise orstudy , especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of biology that studies plants
- noun all the plant life in a particular region or period
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She had a master's degree in botany from the University of Maryland.
Spring has sprung gardeners, and 3 in 4 Americans can dig it 2010
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But I like the “botany is underrated” comment best!
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These organizations, along with leading institutions in botany (the Missouri Garden and the Kew Gardens) and other key organizations (the Marine Biological Laboratory and Harvard Museum Libraries) have joined forces to create the Biodiversity Heritage Library (see my earlier post).
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: AMNH Digital Library 2008
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These organizations, along with leading institutions in botany (the Missouri Garden and the Kew Gardens) and other key organizations (the Marine Biological Laboratory and Harvard Museum Libraries) have joined forces to create the Biodiversity Heritage Library (see my earlier post).
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Morgan, who is pursing a doctorate degree in botany at City University of New York, has long been fascinated by Jergon Sacha.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The notion that sex kept (married) women healthy, the sexual lexicon in botany and science (including theories of electricity), the erotica of picturesque description — all of these gesture toward a sexual climate that women could enjoy and that in part encouraged erotic fantasy.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics; the field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career.
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(And my botany is pretty rusty at this point, or I'd want to do it myself.)
Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’ Darren Naish 2006
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Before I came into contact with theoretical problems in botany I hardly could distinguish any flower from any other one.
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Astrid Cleve received her Ph.D. in botany and later devoted most of her scientific activities to diatomes and to geology and obtained the title of professor in
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