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“botany”
That vocational branch of biological science that embraces the study of plants and plant life, including algae; and it also deals with taxonomy, morphology, physiology, and other aspects of plant science:
While botany is the study of plants, it is divided into many areas including:
- Plant taxonomy, a description of plants and their arrangements into classes.
- Plant geography, the location of certain plants.
- Plant ecology, studies of the relationships between plants and the environment.
- Paleobotany, ancient plants.
- Phytopathology, plant diseases.
- Economic botany, how plants can be used as products.
- Plant morphology, the physical structure of plants:
- Physiology, the function of plant parts.
- Cytology, the study of plant cells and their parts.
- Anatomy and histology, the internal structure of plants.
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(Greek: sand; used primarily in botany and zoology)
(Greek: man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen or anther as used in botany)
(Greek > Latin: plants, plant life [originally, "herb, grass, pasture"] to botany)
(Latin: helmet, helmet shaped, to cover with a helmet; cap; used primarily in zoology and botany with phases of sense development that seem to have been: weasel, weasel's skin or hide, leather, and then a helmet made of leather; by extension, it also means "cat, cats" in some words)
(Greek: in botany, a suffix combining form meaning, "having a certain number or a certain shape of petals")
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“botany”
A major division of plant science which is concerned with all aspects of the spatial distribution of vegetation: Geographical botany, plant geography, and phytogeography all involve the study of the spatial distributions of plant life and of the environmental relationships which may influence these distributions.
Plant geography has emphasized the mapping of such regions and the interpretation of the terms of environmental (ecological) influences.
The areas of phytogeography and zoogeography do not necessarily exist together in the same place, because there are barriers and factors that affect their growth and arrangements which are often different for plants and for animals.
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grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia
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botany
A branch of biology concerned with plant life.
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