botany
Multiple Entries:botany Botany
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
botany /ˈbɒt(ə)ni/
▶noun the scientific study of the structure, ecology, distribution, classification, and economic importance of plants.
■ the plant life of a particular region or geological period.
– derivatives
botanic adjective,
botanist noun.
botanic adjective,
botanist noun.
– origin C17: from earlier botanic (from Fr. botanique, based on Gk botanikos, from botanē ‘plant’) + -y3.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Botany /ˈbɒt(ə)ni/ (also Botany wool)
▶noun merino wool.
– origin C19: named after Botany Bay in Australia, from where the wool orig. came.
'botany' also found in these Oxford entries:
abaxial
- abscission
- acclimatize
- -aceae
- -aceous
- achene
- acotyledon
- acropetal
- aculeate
- adaxial
- adnate
- adpressed
- adventitious
- aerenchyma
- aestivation
- agamospermy
- aggregate
- aggregate fruit
- agrostology
- alar
- alate
- -ales
- aleurone
- alliaceous
- allogamy
- alternate
- ament
- amphimixis
- androecium
- -androus
- anemophilous
- angiosperm
- anterior
- anther
- antheridium
- anthesis
- apetalous
- apex
- apocarpous
- apomixis
- arborescent
- archegonium
- aril
- aroid
- ascomycete
- ascus
- -aster
- awn
- axil
- axilla
