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botany

[bot-n-ee] / ˈbɒt n i /


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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

Specialists in zoology, ecology, and botany worked together to uncover how different species manage to survive there.

From Science Daily Mar. 2, 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

He arrived in Vienna with a sore head and a foul temper—and quarreled with the botany examiner on the first day of the three-day test.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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 more than two hundred years, or until only fifty years ago.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

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

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

Frequently she smiled when she read statements in her botanies as to where plants and vegetables could be found.

From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter




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