Xenobotany

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of alien plants. uncountable

    "An oddly lucid part of his stunned mind registered that these were the first fruiting bodies he'd seen. But this was hardly the time for exercising one of the specialties that had got him onto the intercept ship, xenobotany."

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astrobotany

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"An oddly lucid part of his stunned mind registered that these were the first fruiting bodies he'd seen. But this was hardly the time for exercising one of the specialties that had got him onto the intercept ship, xenobotany."

Etymology

From xeno- + botany.

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