Annual Review of Plant Biology
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Botany In Illustrated Dictionary of Science, Andromeda
The study of plant life; botany is one of the major divisions of Biology, embracing the morphology... (economic botany), to Plant diseases (plant pathology) or to the agricultural importance of plants...
botany In The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather guide
..., interaction with the environment, and classification. Botany is subdivided into a number of specialized... fossil plants, while economic botany deals with the utility of plants. Horticulture, agriculture...
botany In Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
...(bot´ə-ne) [L. botanica, from Gr. botanē herb] pronunciation the science of plants or of the vegetable kingdom. medical botany the botany of plants used in medicine.
...[17 century] Botany was derived from botanic, a borrowing, either directly or via French botanique, of Latin botanicus. The ultimate source of the word was Greek botánē ‘plant, pasture’, a derivative...
Botany In Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought
...Botany (from Greek botane, ‘plant’) is the study of all aspects of living plants; the first.... Botany led to great advances in the life sciences such as cell theory and genetics, and is continuing to...
Botany In Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia
Enlightenment botany was transformed by the acceptance of the idea that flowering plants reproduced... knowledge. The long-standing connection of botany with medicine continued into the eighteenth century...
Botany In McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
...the study of the life processes taking place in plants. Botany may be divided by subject matter into... ferns. Bacteriology and virology are also parts of botany in a broad sense. Furthermore, a number of...
botany In The New Penguin Dictionary of Science
The scientific study of plants. Botany is a very wide subject encompassing a range of disciplines such as genetics, physiology, ecology, pathology and biochemistry. In recognition of this, the...
botany In Penguin Dictionary of Biology
...cities of Ionia. Modern botany commenced in the mid to late nineteenth century when some splendid...
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