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botany

[bot-n-ee] / ˈbɒt n i /


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These fungi have been used in botany since the mid-19th century and form close partnerships with plant roots.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

From architecture to botany to labor practices, the people, places and culture with which Jefferson interacted became integral to the vision of America he would begin to implement on his return to the States.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

My master's degree in botany makes me pretty sure plants need wet dirt to grow in.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

It is to be presumed that it has an unwieldy scientific cognomen in the botanies; but I heard of no common one, except that given by the poet.

From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller

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

Flowers shall again outblossom botanies, and gymnasts of music shall be laid low, and Birds Through An Opera Glass shall sing.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee

Aside from laxity of method and statement, the only difference is that geographies and histories and botanies and astronomies are now part of the authoritative literature which is to be mastered.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey

In one season I have located here almost every flower named in the botanies as native to these regions and several that I can find in no book in my library.

From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter


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