Sentence examples for botany from inspiring English sources

"botany" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a noun to describe the science or study of plants. Example sentence: "John is studying botany at university, and he hopes to become an expert botanist."

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botany

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

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Seeing them there, the head of botany at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden (botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk) returned to build his own lily house.

They are not going to fall silent on the subject for the next two and a half years and suddenly develop an interest in botany or some other harmless hobby.

He meant to be a doctor, with a sideline in playing jazz saxophone, but fell under the spell of a pipe-smoking botany teacher, and that was that.History dictated that he also became an accidental bioethicist.

The botany department of the University of Sao Paulo, for example, was first to crack the genetic code of a bacterium called Xylella fastidiosa, which has been laying waste to vineyards in southern California.

Though less knowledgeable about painting, George was active in the foundation of the Royal Academy; he studied architecture under William Chambers, whom he got to build an observatory at Kew; he was interested in botany and agriculture, genealogy and astronomy, the theatre and music; he revelled in farce and laughed uproariously at slapstick; he loved fireworks, military bands and uniforms.

William Shawn at the New Yorker wanted him to write densely factual pieces on regional geology, archaeology and botany, so the book contains many almost indigestible encyclopedic patches.

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In three short decades successive governors, British soldiers and convicts had done much to tame the inhospitable wilderness immediately around Botany Bay, while pushing pastoral settlement further towards the heart of Captain Cook's great southern land.

For most of its short history the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay on January 18th 1788 the terms of Australia's trade have fluctuated, and bust has followed boom.

The fleet reached Botany Bay on January 19 20 , 1788

Greater Sydney is spread over a vast area that stretches from the Blue Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east and from the southern shore of Lake Macquarie in the north to south of Botany Bay.

Sydney Harbour, Garigal, and Lane Cove national parks are in the city itself; Kur-ring-gai Chase National Park is just to the north; and Botany Bay and Royal national parks are just to the south.

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