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botany

[bot-n-ee] / ˈbɒt n i /


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From architecture to botany to labor practices, the people, places and culture with which Jefferson interacted became integral to the vision of America he would begin to implement on his return to the States.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Simon Milne, regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, also receives a knighthood for services to botany, conservation and horticulture.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

"The samples have proved to be an unexpected, unique and very exciting archive of DNA from wind-dispersed biological particles," says Nils Cronberg, a botany researcher at Lund University.

From Science Daily Dec. 21, 2025

Among his innate gifts, Mufasa proves to be an expert in elephant migration patterns and botany.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2024

The books were of the most varied kind—history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law—all relating to England and English life and customs and manners.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

In one season I have located here almost every flower named in the botanies as native to these regions and several that I can find in no book in my library.

From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter

Flowers shall again outblossom botanies, and gymnasts of music shall be laid low, and Birds Through An Opera Glass shall sing.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee

The difficulty in tree study by the aid of the usual botanies lies mainly in the fact that in using them the first essential parts to be examined are the blossoms and their organs.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

From it I have sent to scientists flowers and vines not then classified and illustrated in our botanies.

From Moths of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

She was familiar with many members of she family, but such a fine specimen she seldom had found and she could not recall having seen it in all of her botanies.

From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter




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