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botany

[bot-n-ee] / ˈbɒt n i /


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Simon Milne, regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, also receives a knighthood for services to botany, conservation and horticulture.

From BBC Jun. 30, 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

"Through this paper, we aim to raise awareness of forensic botany and encourage law enforcement to recognize the value of even the smallest plant fragments during investigations."

From Science Daily Jan. 1, 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

No longer did my teachers lay open for me the book of Nature and speak of botany and zoology; no longer was I given the works of Shakespeare and Pope to con.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

She was familiar with many members of she family, but such a fine specimen she seldom had found and she could not recall having seen it in all of her botanies.

From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter

They packed in all their bird books, their flower records, and botanies, and were eagerly waiting when the call from Mr. Dovesky came.

From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter

The fruit-bearing palms require a chapter to themselves in the botanies, and are a source of surprising wealth.

From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis




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