botany

[ US /ˈbɑtəni/ ]
[ UK /bˈɒtəni/ ]
NOUN
  1. the branch of biology that studies plants
  2. all the plant life in a particular region or period
    the flora of southern California
    Pleistocene vegetation
    the botany of China
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How To Use botany In A Sentence

  • 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
  • These last three paragraphs will get you by the usual, garden-variety botany mid-term.
  • Experts in how different peoples and cultures use indigenous plants, the field known as ethnobotany, believe the work could prove a catalyst for medical breakthroughs, putting scientists on the trail of new, life-saving drugs.
  • Phylogeny, cytology, ethnobotany, conservation biology, and infraspecific taxa are all reasons why a revision of the North American species of Apios was needed.
  • Sampling techniques were adopted from statisticians working in the fields of biology and botany.
  • For botany lessons, we crossed the road into the botanical gardens, there to examine the leaves of ash, oak, elm, plane, pine but no wattles, gums or banksias.
  • One of the most important aspects of paleobotany is establishing relationships between the organisms that we encounter in the fossil record.
  • In their hands, too, was almost all the science of the day; their _medicine_, _botany, _ and _astronomy_ displaced the old nomenclature of _leechdom_, _wort-cunning, _ and _star-craft_. Brief History of English and American Literature
  • First they're introduced to the internal structures and geometries of the desert geology and botany.
  • Outside his work his tastes lay in the direction of botany and bibliomancy, which latter, according to the dictionary, is "Divination performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917
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