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Meaning of 'botany' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Botany [ a. & n.]
- The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.
- A book which treats of the science of botany.

Meaning of 'botany' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . botany [ n]
Meaning (1):
- all the plant life in a particular region or period
Example in sentence:
  • Pleistocene vegetation;
  • the botany of China;
  • the flora of southern California

Nearby Words:

bot botanic botanical botanies botanist botanize botanized botanizer botanizing botanologer

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