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n. The science or study of plants.

n. A book or scholarly work on this subject.

n. The plant life of a particular area: the botany of the Ohio River valley.

n. The characteristic features and biology of a particular kind of plant or plant group.

n. The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.

n. The plant life, or the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.

n. A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.

n. The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See plant.

n. A book which treats of the science of botany.

n. The science of plants.

n. the branch of biology that studies plants

n. all the plant life in a particular region or period

"These organizations, along with leading institutions in botany (the Missouri Garden and the Kew Gardens) and other key organizations (the Marine Biological Laboratory and Harvard Museum Libraries) have joined forces to create the Biodiversity Heritage Library (see my earlier post)."

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