botany

English

Etymology

First attested in 1696: Back-formation from botanic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒt.ə.ni/, /ˈbɒt.ni/, /-nɪ/
• (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.tə.ni/, [ˈbɑ.ɾə.ni], /ˈbɑt.ni/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒt.ə.ni/, /ˈbɒt.ni/, /-nɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɒtəni

Noun

botany (countable and uncountable, plural botanies)

2. (uncountable) A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
3. The plant life of a geographical area; flora.

   the botany of Greenland

4. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
5. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.

Derived terms

• archaeobotany
• archæobotany
• archeobotany
• astrobotany
• botanical
• botanically
• botanise, botanize
• botanist
• botanomancy
• botanophile
• Botany Bay
• cryptobotany
• ethnobotany
• ethnomedicobotany
• geobotany
• macrobotany
• microbotany
• neobotany
• paleobotany
• Port Botany
• xenobotany

Translations

scientific study of plants

• Afrikaans: plantkunde (af)
• Albanian: botanika ?
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلنَّبَات m (ʕilm an-nabāt)
• Armenian: բուսաբանություն (hy) (busabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: botánica f
• Azerbaijani: botanika (az), nəbatatşünaslıq
• Bashkir: ботаника (botanika)
• Basque: botanika (eu)
• Belarusian: бата́ніка f (batánika)
• Bengali: উদ্ভিদবিজ্ঞান (bn) (udbhidbiggên)
• Breton: louzawouriezh ?
• Bulgarian: бота́ника (bg) f (botánika)
• Burmese: ရုက္ခဗေဒ (my) (rukhka.beda.)
• Catalan: botànica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 植物學 / 植物学 (si̍t-bu̍t-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 植物學 / 植物学 (zh) (zhíwùxué)

• Czech: botanika (cs) f
• Danish: botanik (da) c
• Dhivehi: ގަހަވީ އިލްމު (gahavī ilmu)
• Dutch: plantkunde (nl) f, botanie (nl) f, botanica (nl) f
• Esperanto: botaniko (eo), plantscienco
• Estonian: taimeteadus
• Faroese: plantufrøði f
• Finnish: kasvitiede (fi)
• French: botanique (fr) f
• Galician: botánica (gl) f
• Georgian: ბოტანიკა (boṭaniḳa)
• German: Botanik (de) f, Pflanzenkunde f

  Alemannic German: Bflanzekùnd ?

• Greek: φυτολογία (el) f (fytología)
• Greenlandic: botanikki
• Gujarati: વનસ્પતિશાસ્ત્ર ? (vanaspatiśāstra)
• Haitian Creole: etid plant
• Hawaiian: kālailau nahele
• Hebrew: בוטניקה (he) f (bot'aniqa)
• Hindi: वनस्पति विज्ञान m (vanaspati vijñān)
• Hungarian: növénytan (hu)
• Icelandic: grasafræði (is) f
• Indonesian: ilmu tumbuh-tumbuhan (id)
• Irish: luibheolaíocht f
• Italian: botanica (it) f
• Japanese: 植物学 (ja) (しょくぶつがく, shokubutsugaku)
• Kannada: ಸಸ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (sasyaśāstra), ಗಿಡದರಿಮೆ (kn) (giḍadarime)
• Kazakh: ботаника (botanika), өсімдік тану (ösımdık tanu), өсімдіктану (ösımdıktanu)
• Korean: 식물학(植物學) (ko) (singmulhak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: giyanasî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ботаника (ky) (botanika)
• Latin: botanica (la) f
• Latvian: botānika f
• Limburgish: plantkónde ?
• Lithuanian: botanika (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Botanik f
• Macedonian: ботаника f (botanika)
• Malay: kaji tumbuhan, botani (ms)
• Malayalam: സസ്യശാസ്ത്രം (sasyaśāstraṁ)
• Manx: lus-oaylleeaght f
• Māori: mātauranga huaota, mātai tipu
• Marathi: वनस्पतीशास्त्र ? (vanaspatīśāstra)
• Mongolian: ургамалзүй (urgamalzüj), ургамал судлал (urgamal sudlal)
• Nahuatl: tlanelhuayomatiliztli
• Navajo: chʼil naalkaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: botanikk (no) m, plantelære m or f

  Nynorsk: plantelære ?

• Occitan: botanica (oc) f
• Odia: ଉଦ୍ଭିଦ ବିଜ୍ଞାନ (udbhida bijñāna)
• Ossetian: ботаникӕ (botanikæ)
• Pashto: بوټپوهنه (ps) f (buṭpohəna)
• Persian: گیاه‌شناسی (giyâh-šenâsi)
• Polish: botanika (pl) f, roślinoznawstwo n
• Portuguese: botânica (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬਨਸਪਤੀ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ ? (banasapatī vigiān)
• Romanian: botanică (ro) f
• Russian: бота́ника (ru) f (botánika)
• Scottish Gaelic: luibh-eòlas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ботаника f

  Latin: botanika (sh) f

• Slovak: botanika (sk) f
• Slovene: botanika (sl) f, rastlinoslovje n
• Spanish: botánica (es) f
• Sundanese: élmu tutuwuhan
• Swahili: botania class 9/10, elimumime ?
• Swedish: botanik (sv) c, växtlära (sv) ?
• Tagalog: botanika
• Tajik: гиёҳшиносӣ (giyohšinosi)
• Tamil: தாவரவியல் (ta) (tāvaraviyal)
• Telugu: వృక్షశాస్త్రం (te) (vr̥kṣaśāstraṁ)
• Thai: พฤกษศาสตร์ (th) (prʉ́k-sà-sàat)
• Tibetan: རྩི་ཤིང་རིག་པ (rtsi shing rig pa)
• Turkish: botanik (tr), bitki bilimi (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: اوتلر علمی (otlar ilmi), علم نباتات (ilm-i nebatat)

• Ukrainian: бота́ніка (uk) f (botánika)
• Urdu: نباتیات f (nbātyāt)
• Vietnamese: thực vật học (vi) (植物學 (vi))
• Volapük: planav (vo)
• Walloon: botanike (wa) f
• Welsh: llysieueg (cy) f

plant life of an area

• Finnish: kasvillisuus (fi), kasvisto (fi)

properties and life phenomena of plants

• Finnish: kasvibiologia
• Japanese: 植物生態 (しょくぶつせいたい, shokubutsu sētai)
• Swedish: växtbiologi c

botanical treatise or study

• Finnish: kasvitieteellinen artikkeli (article), kasvitieteellinen tutkimus (study)
• Swedish: lärobok i botanik c (text book), flora (sv) c (floristics)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} گیاه‌شناسی (giyâh-šenâsi)

See also

• wortlore
• phytology