botany
noun
1 botany
All the plant life in a particular region or period:
— The botany of China.
synonyms: flora, vegetation.
Roget 357:
organized world,
organized nature;
living nature,
animated nature;
living beings;
organic remains,
fossils.
protoplasm,
cytoplasm,
protein;
albumen;
structure
etc.
329;
organization,
organism.
[Science of living beings]
biology;
natural history,
organic chemistry,
anatomy,
physiology;
zoology
etc.
368;
botany;
microbiology,
virology,
bacteriology,
mycology
etc.
369;
naturalist.
archegenesis
etc.
(production)
161†;
antherozoid†,
bioplasm†,
biotaxy†,
chromosome,
dysmeromorph†;
ecology,
oecology;
erythroblast [Physio.],
gametangium†,
gamete,
germinal matter,
invagination [Biol.];
isogamy†,
oogamy†;
karyaster†;
macrogamete†,
microgamete†;
metabolism,
anabolism,
catabolism;
metaplasm†,
ontogeny,
ovary,
ovum,
oxidation,
phylogeny,
polymorphism,
protozoa,
spermary†,
spermatozoon,
trophoplasm†,
vacuole,
vertebration†,
zoogloea†,
zygote.
Darwinism,
neo-Darwinism,
Lamarkism,
neoLamarkism,
Weismannism.
morphology,
taxonomy.
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Roget 369:
botany;
physiological botany,
structural botany,
systematic botany;
phytography†,
phytology†,
phytotomy†;
vegetable physiology,
herborization†,
dendrology,
mycology,
fungology†,
algology†;
flora,
romona;
botanic garden
etc.
(garden)
371†;
hortus siccus [Lat.],
herbarium,
herbal.
botanist
&c.;
herbist†,
herbarist†,
herbalist,
herborist†,
herbarian†.
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Dutch: botanica, plantegroei, gewas, planteleven, plantengroei, plantenleven, vegetatie
Polish: formacja roślinna
2 botany
The branch of biology that studies plants.
synonym: phytology.
Dutch: botanica, botanie, fytologie, plantenleer, plantkunde
Polish: botanika, nauka o roślinach
Moby thesaurus: aerobiology, agrobiology, amnion, anatomy, astrobiology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, bladder, bleb, blister, boll, calyx, capsule, cell, cell physiology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cyst, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, fistula, flora, flowerage, follicle, gallbladder, genetics, gnotobiotics, greenery, greens, herbage, legume, life science, loculus, marsupium, microbiology, molecular biology, pericarp, pharmacology, physiology, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, pocket, pod, radiobiology, sac, saccule, sacculus, saccus, scrotum, seedcase, silique, sinus, sound, stomach, taxonomy, udder, vasculum, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, ventricle, verdure, vesica, vesicle, virology, xenobiology, zoology ... show more.
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