botany

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Etymology

First attested in 1696: Back-formation from botanic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒt.ə.ni/, /ˈbɒt.ni/, /-nɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑt.ə.ni/, /ˈbɑt.ni/

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• Rhymes: -ɒtəni

Noun

botany (countable and uncountable, plural botanies)

2. (uncountable) A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
3. The plant life of a geographical area; flora.

   the botany of Greenland

4. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
5. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.

Derived terms

• archaeobotany
• archæobotany
• archeobotany
• astrobotany
• botanical
• botanically
• botanise, botanize
• botanist
• botanomancy
• botanophile
• Botany Bay
• cryptobotany
• ethnobotany
• ethnomedicobotany
• geobotany
• macrobotany
• microbotany
• neobotany
• paleobotany
• xenobotany

Translations

scientific study of plants

Afrikaans: plantkunde (af) Albanian: botanika ? Arabic: عِلْم اَلنَّبَات m (ʕilm an-nabāt) Armenian: բուսաբանություն (hy) (busabanutʻyun) Asturian: botánica f Azerbaijani: botanika (az), nəbatatşünaslıq Bashkir: ботаника (botanika) Basque: botanika (eu) Belarusian: бата́ніка f (batánika) Bengali: উদ্ভিদবিজ্ঞান (bn) (udbhidbiggên) Breton: louzawouriezh ? Bulgarian: бота́ника (bg) f (botánika) Burmese: ရုက္ခဗေဒ (my) (rukhka.beda.) Catalan: botànica (ca) f Chinese: Hokkien: 植物學 / 植物学 (si̍t-bu̍t-ha̍k) Mandarin: 植物學 / 植物学 (zh) (zhíwùxué) Czech: botanika (cs) f Danish: botanik (da) c Dhivehi: ގަހަވީ އިލްމު (gahavī ilmu) Dutch: plantkunde (nl) f, botanie (nl) f, botanica (nl) f Esperanto: botaniko (eo), plantscienco Estonian: taimeteadus Faroese: plantufrøði f Finnish: kasvitiede (fi) French: botanique (fr) f Galician: botánica (gl) f Georgian: ბოტანიკა (boṭaniḳa) German: Botanik (de) f, Pflanzenkunde f Alemannic German: Bflanzekùnd ? Greek: φυτολογία (el) f (fytología) Greenlandic: botanikki Gujarati: વનસ્પતિશાસ્ત્ર ? (vanaspatiśāstra) Haitian Creole: etid plant Hawaiian: kālailau nahele Hebrew: בוטניקה (he) f (bot'aniqa) Hindi: वनस्पति विज्ञान m (vanaspati vijñān) Hungarian: növénytan (hu) Icelandic: grasafræði (is) f Indonesian: ilmu tumbuh-tumbuhan (id) Irish: luibheolaíocht f Italian: botanica (it) f Japanese: 植物学 (ja) (しょくぶつがく, shokubutsugaku) Kannada: ಸಸ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (sasyaśāstra), ಗಿಡದರಿಮೆ (kn) (giḍadarime) Kazakh: ботаника (botanika), өсімдік тану (ösımdık tanu), өсімдіктану (ösımdıktanu) Korean: 식물학(植物學) (ko) (singmulhak) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: giyanasî (ku) Kyrgyz: ботаника (ky) (botanika) Latin: botanica (la) f Latvian: botānika f Limburgish: plantkónde ? Lithuanian: botanika (lt) f Luxembourgish: Botanik f Macedonian: ботаника f (botanika) Malay: kaji tumbuhan, botani (ms) Malayalam: സസ്യശാസ്ത്രം (sasyaśāstraṁ) Manx: lus-oaylleeaght f Maori: mātauranga huaota, mātai tipu Marathi: वनस्पतीशास्त्र ? (vanaspatīśāstra) Mongolian: ургамалзүй (urgamalzüj), ургамал судлал (urgamal sudlal) Nahuatl: tlanelhuayomatiliztli Navajo: chʼil naalkaah Norwegian: Bokmål: botanikk (no) m, plantelære m or f Nynorsk: plantelære ? Occitan: botanica (oc) f Odia: ଉଦ୍ଭିଦ ବିଜ୍ଞାନ (udbhida bijñāna) Ossetian: ботаникӕ (botanikæ) Ottoman Turkish: اوتلر علمی (otlar ilmi), علم نباتات (ilm-i nebatat) Pashto: بوټپوهنه (ps) f (buṭpohəna) Persian: گیاه‌شناسی (giyâh-šenâsi) Polish: botanika (pl) f, roślinoznawstwo n Portuguese: botânica (pt) f Punjabi: ਬਨਸਪਤੀ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ ? (banasapatī vigiān) Romanian: botanică (ro) f Russian: бота́ника (ru) f (botánika) Scottish Gaelic: luibh-eòlas m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ботаника f Roman: botanika (sh) f Slovak: botanika (sk) f Slovene: botanika (sl) f, rastlinoslovje n Spanish: botánica (es) f Sundanese: élmu tutuwuhan Swahili: botania class 9/10, elimumime ? Swedish: botanik (sv) c, växtlära (sv) ? Tagalog: botanika Tajik: гиёҳшиносӣ (giyohšinosi) Tamil: தாவரவியல் (ta) (tāvaraviyal) Telugu: వృక్షశాస్త్రం (te) (vr̥kṣaśāstraṁ) Thai: พฤกษศาสตร์ (prʉ́k-sà-sàat) Turkish: botanik (tr), bitki bilimi (tr) Ukrainian: бота́ніка (uk) f (botánika) Vietnamese: thực vật học (vi) (植物學 (vi)) Volapük: planav (vo) Walloon: botanike (wa) f Welsh: llysieueg (cy) f

plant life of an area

Finnish: kasvillisuus (fi), kasvisto (fi)

properties and life phenomena of plants

Finnish: kasvibiologia Japanese: 植物生態 (しょくぶつせいたい, shokubutsu sētai) Swedish: växtbiologi c

botanical treatise or study

Finnish: kasvitieteellinen artikkeli (article), kasvitieteellinen tutkimus (study) Swedish: lärobok i botanik c (text book), flora (sv) c (floristics)

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Translations to be checked

Persian: (please verify) گیاه‌شناسی (giyâh-šenâsi)

See also

• wortlore
• phytology