botany
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As I explained to the trainees, however, an exceptional amount of knowledge about botany, forestry, gastronomy, aquatic systems and topography was not just passed along by enslaved people, but created by them.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
Helen Litchfield, secretary of the botany section at La Société Guernesiaise, said the team's efforts in propagating the dwarf pansy meant it was no longer at risk.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
He learned through writing the book that his mother hailed from a “family of brilliant and daring misfits who had carved new paths in botany and medicine and left-wing politics,” he writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
First, a botany crash-course: You can’t just plant a seed from your favorite apple to grow more of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
I had already taken a course in botany and done very well.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
The topic Grasses is manifestly unfit for children, since grasses are difficult to study, and the description of them in encyclopedias and botanies is too technical.
From Library Work with Children by Alice Isabel Hazeltine
With a sentiment of wonder and inquiry, not unmixed with mystery, do we regard many flowers, which are described in our botanies as Garden Escapes.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
The difficulty in tree study by the aid of the usual botanies lies mainly in the fact that in using them the first essential parts to be examined are the blossoms and their organs.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
From it I have sent to scientists flowers and vines not then classified and illustrated in our botanies.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
It was the germander speedwell that in literature and botanies alike was most commonly known as the forget-me-not for over two hundred years, or until only fifty years ago.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
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