botany
UK/ˈbɒt.ə.ni//ˈbɑ.tə.ni/
botany noun: a branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
Noun
botany (countable and uncountable, plural botanies)
- A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
- The plant life of a geographical area; flora.
- the botany of Greenland
- The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
- A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.
Proper noun capitalized: Botany
Botany
- A suburb of Sydney in the Bayside council area, New South Wales, Australia.
botany meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
botany in Hindi
- scientific study of plants
- वनस्पति विज्ञान vanaspati vijñān
botany in Tamil
- scientific study of plants
- தாவரவியல் tāvaraviyal
botany in Marathi
- scientific study of plants
- वनस्पतीशास्त्र vanaspatīśāstra
botany in Urdu
- scientific study of plants
- نباتیات nbātyāt
More languagesFewer languages
- botany in Bengali
- উদ্ভিদবিজ্ঞান udbhidbiggên
- botany in Telugu
- వృక్షశాస్త్రం vr̥kṣaśāstraṁ
- botany in Malayalam
- സസ്യശാസ്ത്രം sasyaśāstraṁ
- botany in Kannada
- ಸಸ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ sasyaśāstra, ಗಿಡದರಿಮೆ giḍadarime
- botany in Punjabi
- ਬਨਸਪਤੀ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ banasapatī vigiān
- botany in Gujarati
- વનસ્પતિશાસ્ત્ર vanaspatiśāstra
- botany in Odia
- ଉଦ୍ଭିଦ ବିଜ୍ଞାନ udbhida bijñāna
- botany in Nepali
- वनस्पति विज्ञान, वनस्पतिशास्त्र, वनस्पतिविज्ञान
- botany in Pashto
- بوټپوهنه buṭpohəna
- botany in Tagalog
- botanika
- botany in Arabic
- عِلْم اَلنَّبَات ʕilm an-nabāt
- botany in Malay
- kaji tumbuhan, botani
- botany in Indonesian
- ilmu tumbuh-tumbuhan
- botany in Persian
- گیاهشناسی giyâh-šenâsi
- botany in Thai
- พฤกษศาสตร์ prʉ́k-sà-sàat
- botany in Vietnamese
- thực vật học
- botany in Myanmar
- ရုက္ခဗေဒ rukhka.beda.
- Dhivehi
- ގަހަވީ އިލްމު gahavī ilmu
Examples of botany in a sentence
- Through my new project, I dovetail my interests in botany and programming.
- The botany handbooks in the library fall under Plant Biology.
- Paleoalgology is the branch of botany that deals with algae in ancient times.
Forms of botany
| plural | botanies |
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Origin of botany
First attested in 1696: Back-formation from botanic.
Words formed from botany
Phrases with botany
Words that rhyme with botany
Questions about botany
- What does botany mean?
- Botany means a branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
- What is botany in Hindi?
- Botany in Hindi is वनस्पति विज्ञान (vanaspati vijñān). See Botany meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is botany?
- Botany can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce botany?
- Botany is pronounced /ˈbɒt.ə.ni/ (UK).
- What is the plural of botany?
- The plural of botany is botanies.
Words near botany in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: botany (page history and authors); Botany (page history and authors); botany (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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