ethnobotany
noun
the plant lore and agricultural customs of a people.
ethnobotanical
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a word derived from
ethnobotany.
Example Sentences
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Anadol Studio’s active creative partnership with Google deepened after Refik’s own more recent stays in the Sacred Village, taking advantage of what Neven characterizes as “the ethnobotanical knowledge that Indigenous tribes still possess.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
“It made us ask the question, ‘How do you decolonize an ethnobotanical garden?’”
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
Fewer than 5% of the medicinal plants used by the Ticuna people, whose ethnobotanical knowledge is one of the best-studied in the Amazon, have been screened for their biological activities, Cámara Leret says.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 5, 2022
“In making his sensational claim,” Mr. Davis writes, “Thor Heyerdahl ignored the overwhelming body of linguistic, ethnographic and ethnobotanical evidence, augmented today by genetic and archaeological data, indicating that he was patently wrong.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013
In contrast to random collecting, Cox feels, ethnobotanical field research provides a far more streamlined way of locating plants that have medical potential.
From Time Magazine Archive
