(a. & 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.
(a. & n.) A book which treats of the science of botany.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Czech Association of Pharmacists was established as a state-constituted professional organization by the decree of the Czech Government dated 11 March 1784, the initiator of the decree being Josef Gottfried Mikan (1742-1818), the then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Botany and Chemistry at Charles University.
(2) Clinical features, botany, phytochemistry, patch testing and ecology of Compositae and Frullania (liverwort) allergic contact phytodermatitis are discussed.
(3) At Oxford, like his wife, Priscilla, whom he married in 1943, Leonard read botany.
(4) It evaluates the "pharmacological wisdom" of the local population, along with their symbolic use of the environment, to show how they construct medicinal plant classifications which follow a folk logic, but often conform as well to modern botanical classifications based on the principles of systematic botany or chemistry.
(5) Botany papers are less frequent and mainly deal with morphology and taxonomy.
(6) The programs are equally suitable for botany or for zoology, or even for non-biological data.
(7) Follow the path to the end of Botany Bay, before it drops down, and leads into Broadstairs next to the beach.
(8) Following an aeropalynological carried out by the Botany Division of our University, we investigated the sensitization to Chenopodium in our pollinic patients in order to establish their clinical patterns.
(9) Part I deals with history, botany, cultivation, and primary processing.
(10) Dr. Abildgaard's long and varied career included many significant contributions to veterinary and human medicine, biology, zoology, botany, physics, chemistry, and mineralogy.
(11) Two hundred years ago a group of physicians laid the foundations of botany with their study of plants for medicinal purposes.
(12) An obvious implication is to increase emergency health care providers' education in locale-specific medical botany.
(13) At that point he was sent to the University of Vienna for a 2-year course of studies, with emphasis on physics and botany, to prepare him for the exam.
(14) 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.
(15) Establishment of the project was preceded by a comprehensive search of the literature, including the following sources: 1) articles on medical botany; 2) reports of testing crude plant extracts for fertility regulating purposes; 3) reports of in vitro effects of plant extracts; and 4) reports of a limited number of experimental studies in human subjects.
(16) Or does it have its genesis in the type of ignorance that has led to the profound misunderstanding of – and violence against – this continent’s first people since Captain James Cook landed in Botany Bay in 1770, shot a couple of them on first contact and set about stealing their country?
(17) The Institute of Economic Botany of The New York Botanical Garden is collaborating with the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) in the search for higher plants with anti-AIDS and anticancer activity.
(18) The history, epidemiology, botany and pharmacology of the mushroom are reviewed.
(19) Amid all these tall poppies, there's a climber new to botany in the form of the BBC's Andrew Marr.
(20) The eukaryotic microorganisms have always been studied and described in the context of Zoology (as tiny animals), Botany (as tiny plants), Mycology (as water molds) or Microbiology (as disease agents).
Phytobiology
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Example Sentences:
(1) Cytostatic activity of seven derivatives of 4-(alpha-phenylaminobenzylidene)morpholinium iodide was examined by the phytobiological methods with Triticum and Allium cepa roots.