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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The study of plants; botany.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The science of plants; botany.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology the study of plants; botany

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the branch of biology that studies plants

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