botany

If you’re not already, dig into media about the natural world, in whatever format you like best, whether that means watching documentaries, reading books about animals or botany or expeditions, or following foraging accounts on TikTok.
Tips for Sleeping Outside Alone|Blair Braverman|June 16, 2021|Outside Online
It manages to be an ode to taxidermy and botany, a meditation on aging, a tongue-in-cheek look at how we romanticize the wilderness, and, as the title suggests, a reflection on the delusions of modern life.
3 Beloved Nature Books You Probably Haven’t Read|Erin Berger|March 25, 2021|Outside Online
Thus she was heading to the University of North Dakota as a botany instructor.
How passion, luck and sweat saved some of North America’s rarest plants|Susan Milius|November 5, 2020|Science News
That was the end of her formal education, but she showed great aptitude for botany.
How passion, luck and sweat saved some of North America’s rarest plants|Susan Milius|November 5, 2020|Science News

A 1786 book on experimental physics covered astronomy, geology, zoology, medicine, and botany.
Why you don’t really know what you know|Katie McLean|October 21, 2020|MIT Technology Review
The Garden of Cyrus, with its arcane explorations of botany and geometry, may as well be an alchemical treatise or a grimoire.
Halloween Read: Thomas Browne’s Eerie Premonition of His Burial|Stefan Beck|October 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
And she has amassed a world-class 10,000-volume library devoted to botany through the ages.
John Edwards' Sugar Mama|Lloyd Grove|January 29, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Three men were sentenced to grow potatoes at Botany Bay the rest of their lives.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
He had taken up botany with much ardour, and sharing the study with Margaret was a great delight to both.
The Daisy Chain|Charlotte Yonge
“Botany is that branch of biology which treats of plant life” has in it the same error.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
“Biology” is not so well understood as “botany,” though it is a more general term.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
“Man is an animal that reasons,” “botany is the branch of science that treats of plant life,” would both be easily understood.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

British Dictionary definitions for botany

botany

/ (ˈbɒtənɪ) /

noun plural -nies

the study of plants, including their classification, structure, physiology, ecology, and economic importance

the plant life of a particular region or time

the biological characteristics of a particular group of plants

Derived forms of botany

botanist, noun

Word Origin for botany

C17: from botanical; compare astronomy, astronomical

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Scientific definitions for botany

botany

[ bŏt′n-ē ]

The scientific study of plants, including their growth, structure, physiology, reproduction, and pathology, as well as their economic use and cultivation by humans.

The plant life of a particular area.

Cultural definitions for botany

botany

The scientific study and categorization of plants. (See fruit, photosynthesis, and plant kingdom.)

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