botany

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First attested in 1696: Back-formation from botanic..

Noun

botany (countable and uncountable; plural botanies)

1. (uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.
2. The plant life, or the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
3. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.

Derived terms

botanically botanist

botanize Botany Bay

Related terms

• botanical a

Translations

scientific study of plants

Arabic: علم النبات (ar) (3ilm al-nabaat) m. Armenian: բուսաբանություն (hy) (busabanut'yun) Azeri: botanika (az) Belarusian: батаніка (be) (batánika) f. Bulgarian: ботаника (bg) (botánika) f. Catalan: botànica (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 植物學 (cmn), 植物学 (cmn) (zhíwùxué) Czech: botanika (cs) f. Danish: botanik (da) Dutch: plantkunde (nl), botanie (nl), botanica (nl) Esperanto: botaniko (eo), plantscienco (eo) Finnish: kasvitiede (fi) French: botanique (fr) f. Georgian: ბოტანიკა (ka) (botanika) German: Botanik (de) f. Greek: φυτολογία (el) (fitología) f. Greenlandic: botanikki (kl) Hebrew: בוטניקה (he) (bot'aniqa) Irish: luibheolaíocht (ga) f. Italian: botanica (it) f.

Japanese: 植物学 (ja) (しょくぶつがく,shokubutsugaku) Korean: 식물학 (ko) (singmulhak) (植物學 (ko)) Latin: botanica (la) f. Luxembourgish: Botanik (lb) Navajo: chʼil naalkaah Ossetian: ботаникæ (botanikæ) Pashto: بوټپوهنه (ps) (buṭpohəna) f. Polish: botanika (pl) f. Portuguese: botânica (pt) f. Romanian: botanică (ro) f. Russian: ботаника (ru) (botánika) f. Scottish Gaelic: luibh-eòlas (gd) m. Spanish: botánica (es) f. Swahili: botania (sw), elimumime (sw) Swedish: botanik (sv) c. Turkish: botanik (tr) Ukrainian: ботаніка (uk) (botánika) f. Vietnamese: thực vật học (vi) (植物學 (vi)) Volapük: planav (vo)

plant life, or the properties and life phenomena

Japanese: 植物生態 (ja) (shokubutsu sētai)

botanical treatise or study

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Novial: botanike Persian: گیاه‌شناسی (giyâh-šenâsi) Telugu: వృక్షశాస్త్రం (vrukshaSaastram)