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the branch of biology that studies plants; or all the plant life in a particular region or period- She is studying botany.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The plant, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum, grows in gravelly soil throughout the region.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
botanical = related to the study of plants
botanical = related to the study of plants
botanist = person who studies plants
botanical = related to the study of plants
botanists = people who study plants
botanists = people who study plants
botanical = related to the study of plants
botanical = regarding plant life in a particular region
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