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botany

10 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. botany (noun)
  2. Botany Bay greens (noun plural but singular or plural in constructrion)
  3. Botany Bay gum (noun)
  4. Botany Bay kino (noun)
  5. Botany Bay oak (noun)
  6. Botany Bay olive (noun)
  7. Botany Bay (geographical name)
  8. descriptive botany (noun)
  9. economic botany (noun)
  10. geographical botany (noun)

bot·a·ny

noun \ˈbä-tə-nē, ˈbät-nē\
plural bot·a·nies

Definition of BOTANY

1
: a branch of biology dealing with plant life
2
a : plant life b : the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group
3
: a botanical treatise or study; especially : a particular system of botany
— bot·a·nist \-nist\ noun
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Origin of BOTANY

botanic botanical + 2-y
First Known Use: 1696

Other Botany Terms

annual, burgeon, chloroplast, nomenclature, succulent, sylvan, xylem

Rhymes with BOTANY

cottony

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