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Botany

//ˈbɑt.ə.ni// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A suburb of Sydney in the Bayside council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants. uncountable
  2. 2
    the branch of biology that studies plants wordnet
  3. 3
    The plant life of a geographical area; flora. countable, uncountable

    "the botany of Greenland"

  4. 4
    all the plant life in a particular region or period wordnet
  5. 5
    The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place. countable

Etymology

First attested in 1696: Back-formation from botanic.

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