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botany

[bot-n-ee] / ˈbɒt n i /


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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 guess he hadn’t expected to see three kids breaking into a botany lab.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

For this purpose I have drawn all the shapes I can find named in botanies, into a book, from which I teach them.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann

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

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

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

It was the germander speedwell that in literature and botanies alike was most commonly known as the forget-me-not for more than two hundred years, or until only fifty years ago.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan




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