botanynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈbɒt.ən.i/us/ˈbɑː.t̬ən.i/the scientific study of plants
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Animal & plant biology - general words
- abiotic
- anatomical
- anatomically correct
- anatomy
- artificial selection
- assimilate
- biological
- biologist
- biophysics
- biotechnology
- body clock
- entomology
- food web
- food chain
- geotropism
- motility
- naturalist
- poikilothermic
- sting
- survival of the fittest
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Examples from literature
- Here I can saunter in a green-house among plants and heaths, studying botany and beauty.
- His leisure time was given up to natural history, and especially to mineralogy and botany.
- I spoke just now of the time when England was joined to France, as bearing on Hampshire botany.
- In this same leisurely manner I studied zoology and botany.
- When his shop was closed he would go out on the hills, and there spend his time studying geology and botany.