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Definition

the branch of biology that studies plants; or all the plant life in a particular region or period

She is studying the botany of southeastern China.
A person with a better grasp of botanical principles would probably not have eaten them, but it was an innocent error.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

botanical = related to the study of plants

An extensive search of the medical and botanical literature yielded not a single indication that any part of H. alpinum is poisonous.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

botanical = related to the study of plants

Richardson also happened to be the botanist who first wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii and gave the plant its botanical name.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

botanist = person who studies plants

Richardson also happened to be the botanist who first wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii and gave the plant its botanical name.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

botanical = related to the study of plants

The plant, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum, grows in gravelly soil throughout the region.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

botanists = people who study plants

Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

botanists = people who study plants

In 1848, while leading an expedition through the Canadian Arctic in search of the by then missing Franklin, Richardson made a botanical comparison of H. alpinum and H. mackenzii.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

botanical = related to the study of plants

A. califomica grows only in gypsum soil of a sort that occurs in abundance along the south shore of Lake Mead, so that is where Walsh led his team of rangers to conduct the botanical survey.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

botanical = regarding plant life in a particular region

Alchemy is a peculiar combination of chemistry, botany, medicine, astronomy and astrology.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
It was very little, but enough to make him appear to her a Porson or Bentley, and to put him at his ease with botanical nomenclature.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
It's the home of Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, and a secret Traveler flume into the unknown.
D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
Why don't some of you take up botany?
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
There, in a small area like a courtyard, is the Applicable Sciences botany pond.
Ally Condie -- Matched
Eustace, who was really rather good at botany; said it wasn't, and he was probably right; but it was something of very much the same kind.
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
He still shot at things, but he was always in the front row for the services, watching old Roberts like a botanist watching a rare beetle.
Terry Pratchett -- Nation
You think I pay attention in botany class?
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

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