botany

The Garden of Cyrus, with its arcane explorations of botany and geometry, may as well be an alchemical treatise or a grimoire.

And she has amassed a world-class 10,000-volume library devoted to botany through the ages.

Three men were sentenced to grow potatoes at Botany Bay the rest of their lives.

He had taken up botany with much ardour, and sharing the study with Margaret was a great delight to both.

“Botany is that branch of biology which treats of plant life” has in it the same error.

“Biology” is not so well understood as “botany,” though it is a more general term.

“Man is an animal that reasons,” “botany is the branch of science that treats of plant life,” would both be easily understood.