botany
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Specialists in zoology, ecology, and botany worked together to uncover how different species manage to survive there.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026
Simon Milne, whose formal title is regius keeper, has been recognised for his services to botany, conservation and horticulture.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
First, a botany crash-course: You can’t just plant a seed from your favorite apple to grow more of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
“We’ve always been intrigued by overlap between plants and humans,” study coauthor Pradeep Kachroo, a botany professor at the University of Kentucky, told Salon in a video interview.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
We were both interested in botany, and I tried to explain some of the things I knew without sounding like the host of the Discovery Channel.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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With a sentiment of wonder and inquiry, not unmixed with mystery, do we regard many flowers, which are described in our botanies as Garden Escapes.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
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 Lee, Gerald Stanley
It is to be presumed that it has an unwieldy scientific cognomen in the botanies; but I heard of no common one, except that given by the poet.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Miller, Olive Thorne
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 Stratton-Porter, Gene
Aside from laxity of method and statement, the only difference is that geographies and histories and botanies and astronomies are now part of the authoritative literature which is to be mastered.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
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