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botany

name · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɒt.ə.ni/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɒt.ni/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /-nɪ/
  • Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˈbɑ.tə.ni/
  • Atlantic-Canada, General-American: [ˈbɑ.ɾə.ni]
  • Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˈbɑt.ni/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, dialectal: /ˈbɒt.ə.ni/ of the US
  • Canada, dialectal: /ˈbɒt.ni/ of the US
  • Canada, dialectal: /-nɪ/ of the US
  • rhymes with -ɒtəni
  • CMU ARPABET: B AA1 T AH0 N IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A suburb of Sydney in the Bayside council area, New South Wales, Australia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The plant life of a geographical area; flora.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • the botany of Greenland

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

the branch of biology that studies plants

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: phytology

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: biology, biological science

Narrower terms: mycology, pomology, paleobotany, palaeobotany, phycology, algology, pteridology

7

noun

Meaning 7

all the plant life in a particular region or period

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Pleistocene vegetation
  • the flora of southern California
  • the botany of China

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: vegetation, flora

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

Narrower terms: browse, brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket, growth, scrub, chaparral, bush, stand, forest, wood, woods, shrubbery, garden, brier, brierpatch, brier patch, groundcover, ground cover

History

Etymology

First attested in 1696: Back-formation from botanic.

Across languages

Translations

123 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: plantkunde — scientific study of plants
  • Albanian: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Arabic: عِلْم اَلنَّبَات (ʕilm an-nabāt) — scientific study of plants
  • Armenian: բուսաբանություն (busabanutʻyun) — scientific study of plants
  • Asturian: botánica — scientific study of plants
  • Azerbaijani: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Azerbaijani: nəbatatşünaslıq — scientific study of plants
  • Bashkir: ботаника (botanika) — scientific study of plants
  • Basque: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Belarusian: бата́ніка (batánika) — scientific study of plants
  • Bengali: উদ্ভিদবিজ্ঞান (udbhidbiggên) — scientific study of plants
  • Breton: louzawouriezh — scientific study of plants
  • Bulgarian: бота́ника (botánika) — scientific study of plants
  • Burmese: ရုက္ခဗေဒ (rukhka.beda.) — scientific study of plants
  • Catalan: botànica — scientific study of plants
  • Chinese: 植物學 /植物学 (si̍t-bu̍t-ha̍k) — scientific study of plants
  • Chinese Mandarin: 植物學 /植物学 (zhíwùxué) — scientific study of plants
  • Czech: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Danish: botanik — scientific study of plants
  • Dhivehi: ގަހަވީ އިލްމު (gahavī ilmu) — scientific study of plants
  • Dutch: plantkunde — scientific study of plants
  • Dutch: botanie — scientific study of plants
  • Dutch: botanica — scientific study of plants
  • Esperanto: botaniko — scientific study of plants
  • Esperanto: plantscienco — scientific study of plants
  • Estonian: taimeteadus — scientific study of plants
  • Faroese: plantufrøði — scientific study of plants
  • Finnish: kasvitiede — scientific study of plants
  • French: botanique — scientific study of plants
  • Galician: botánica — scientific study of plants
  • Georgian: ბოტანიკა (boṭaniḳa) — scientific study of plants
  • German: Botanik — scientific study of plants
  • German: Pflanzenkunde — scientific study of plants
  • German: Bflanzekùnd — scientific study of plants
  • Greek: φυτολογία (fytología) — scientific study of plants
  • Greenlandic: botanikki — scientific study of plants
  • Gujarati: વનસ્પતિશાસ્ત્ર (vanaspatiśāstra) — scientific study of plants
  • Haitian Creole: etid plant — scientific study of plants
  • Hawaiian: kālailau nahele — scientific study of plants
  • Hebrew: בוטניקה (bot'aniqa) — scientific study of plants
  • Hindi: वनस्पति विज्ञान (vanaspati vijñān) — scientific study of plants
  • Hungarian: növénytan — scientific study of plants
  • Icelandic: grasafræði — scientific study of plants
  • Indonesian: ilmu tumbuh-tumbuhan — scientific study of plants
  • Irish: luibheolaíocht — scientific study of plants
  • Italian: botanica — scientific study of plants
  • Japanese: 植物学 (shokubutsugaku) — scientific study of plants
  • Kannada: ಸಸ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (sasyaśāstra) — scientific study of plants
  • Kannada: ಗಿಡದರಿಮೆ (giḍadarime) — scientific study of plants
  • Kazakh: ботаника (botanika) — scientific study of plants
  • Kazakh: өсімдік тану (ösımdık tanu) — scientific study of plants
  • Kazakh: өсімдіктану (ösımdıktanu) — scientific study of plants
  • Korean: 식물학 (singmulhak) — scientific study of plants
  • Northern Kurdish: giyanasî — scientific study of plants
  • Kyrgyz: ботаника (botanika) — scientific study of plants
  • Latin: botanica — scientific study of plants
  • Latvian: botānika — scientific study of plants
  • Limburgish: plantkónde — scientific study of plants
  • Lithuanian: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Luxembourgish: Botanik — scientific study of plants
  • Macedonian: ботаника (botanika) — scientific study of plants
  • Malay: kaji tumbuhan — scientific study of plants
  • Malay: botani — scientific study of plants
  • Malayalam: സസ്യശാസ്ത്രം (sasyaśāstraṁ) — scientific study of plants
  • Manx: lus-oaylleeaght — scientific study of plants
  • Māori: mātauranga huaota — scientific study of plants
  • Māori: mātai tipu — scientific study of plants
  • Marathi: वनस्पतीशास्त्र (vanaspatīśāstra) — scientific study of plants
  • Mongolian: ургамалзүй (urgamalzüj) — scientific study of plants
  • Mongolian: ургамал судлал (urgamal sudlal) — scientific study of plants
  • Nahuatl: tlanelhuayomatiliztli — scientific study of plants
  • Navajo: chʼil naalkaah — scientific study of plants
  • Norwegian Bokmål: botanikk — scientific study of plants
  • Norwegian Bokmål: plantelære — scientific study of plants
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: plantelære — scientific study of plants
  • Occitan: botanica — scientific study of plants
  • Odia: ଉଦ୍ଭିଦ ବିଜ୍ଞାନ (udbhida bijñāna) — scientific study of plants
  • Ossetian: ботаникӕ (botanikæ) — scientific study of plants
  • Pashto: بوټپوهنه (buṭpohəna) — scientific study of plants
  • Persian: گیاهشناسی (giyâh-šenâsi) — scientific study of plants
  • Polish: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Polish: roślinoznawstwo — scientific study of plants
  • Portuguese: botânica — scientific study of plants
  • Punjabi: ਬਨਸਪਤੀ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (banasapatī vigiān) — scientific study of plants
  • Romanian: botanică — scientific study of plants
  • Russian: бота́ника (botánika) — scientific study of plants
  • Scottish Gaelic: luibh-eòlas — scientific study of plants
  • Serbo-Croatian: ботаника — scientific study of plants
  • Serbo-Croatian: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Slovak: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Slovene: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Slovene: rastlinoslovje — scientific study of plants
  • Spanish: botánica — scientific study of plants
  • Sundanese: élmu tutuwuhan — scientific study of plants
  • Swahili: botania — scientific study of plants
  • Swahili: elimumime — scientific study of plants
  • Swedish: botanik — scientific study of plants
  • Swedish: växtlära — scientific study of plants
  • Tagalog: botanika — scientific study of plants
  • Tajik: гиёҳшиносӣ (giyohšinosi) — scientific study of plants
  • Tamil: தாவரவியல் (tāvaraviyal) — scientific study of plants
  • Telugu: వృక్షశాస్త్రం (vr̥kṣaśāstraṁ) — scientific study of plants
  • Thai: พฤกษศาสตร์ (prʉ́k-sà-sàat) — scientific study of plants
  • Tibetan: རྩི་ཤིང་རིག་པ — scientific study of plants
  • Turkish: botanik — scientific study of plants
  • Turkish: bitki bilimi — scientific study of plants
  • Ottoman Turkish: اوتلر علمی (otlar ilmi) — scientific study of plants
  • Ottoman Turkish: علم نباتات (ilm-i nebatat) — scientific study of plants
  • Ukrainian: бота́ніка (botánika) — scientific study of plants
  • Urdu: نباتیات (nbātyāt) — scientific study of plants
  • Vietnamese: thực vật học — scientific study of plants
  • Volapük: planav — scientific study of plants
  • Walloon: botanike — scientific study of plants
  • Welsh: llysieueg — scientific study of plants
  • Finnish: kasvillisuus — plant life of an area
  • Finnish: kasvisto — plant life of an area
  • Finnish: kasvibiologia — properties and life phenomena of plants
  • Japanese: 植物生態 (shokubutsu sētai) — properties and life phenomena of plants
  • Swedish: växtbiologi — properties and life phenomena of plants
  • Finnish: kasvitieteellinen artikkeli — botanical treatise or study
  • Finnish: kasvitieteellinen tutkimus — botanical treatise or study
  • Swedish: lärobok i botanik — botanical treatise or study
  • Swedish: flora (floristics) — botanical treatise or study
Real reading context

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