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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun botany has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

botanyn. [F. botanique, a. & n., fr. Gr. botanic, fr. herb, plant, fr. to feed, graze.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A book which treats of the science of botany.  [1913 Webster]
    " Botany is divided into various departments; as, Structural Botany, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants; Physiological Botany, the study of their functions and life; and Systematic Botany, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

botany, n. (in full Botany wool) merino wool, esp. from Australia.

Etymology
Botany Bay, New S. Wales, named from the variety of its flora
botany, n.
1 the study of the physiology, structure, genetics, ecology, distribution, classification, and economic importance of plants.
2 the plant life of a particular area or time.

Derivative
botanic adj. botanical adj. botanically adv. botanist n.
Etymology
botanic f. F botanique or LL botanicus f. Gk botanikos f. botane plant

DEVIL DICTIONARY

botany

n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling.

THESAURUS

botany

aerobiology, agrobiology, amnion, anatomy, astrobiology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, bladder, bleb, blister, boll, calyx, capsule, cell, cell physiology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cyst, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, fistula, flora, flowerage, follicle, gallbladder, genetics, gnotobiotics, greenery, greens, herbage, legume, life science, loculus, marsupium, microbiology, molecular biology, pericarp, pharmacology, physiology, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, pocket, pod, radiobiology, sac, saccule, sacculus, saccus, scrotum, seedcase, silique, sinus, sound, stomach, taxonomy, udder, vasculum, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, ventricle, verdure, vesica, vesicle, virology, xenobiology, zoology

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botany

Organization

N organization, organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism, morphology, taxonomy, organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.

Botany

N botany, physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany, phytography, phytology, phytotomy, vegetable physiology, herborization, dendrology, mycology, fungology, algology, flora, romona, botanic garden, hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal, botanist, herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian, botanical, botanic.

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