(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).
Zoology
Definition:
(n.) That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
(n.) A treatise on this science.
Example Sentences:
(1) This clearing and staining procedure is thus readily applicable to comparative studies in anatomy, embryology and systematic zoology.
(2) E. coli from wild boars in a zoological garden has less sensitivity than from domesticated animals.
(3) The data indicate that the comparatively poor reproductive performance of cheetahs maintained in zoological parks is not attributable to a captivity-induced response afflicting the male.
(4) Since its arrival at the Paris's zoological Park, the yeasts of the flora digestive tract of a young female of Giant Panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, was daily, then weekly studied.
(5) But despite becoming a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland – accorded a doctorate in France and winningly peer-reviewed in the US – British universities refused to consider his thesis, because he was not a graduate.
(6) Zoological preparation rooms (P) and post-mortem rooms (S) constitute an environment for the spread of infection in areas of human habitation.
(7) In zoological and judicial terms, the deer habituated to paddock keeping still belong to wild animals that are held captive.
(8) Although similar statements might be made about almost any field of science, it is in particular true of this field, which represents a kind of mongrel discipline derived from at least three major sources (psychology, embryology, and neuroscience) and several more minor ones (including developmental psychology and psychiatry, psychoanalysis, education, zoology, ethology, and sociology).
(9) We believe that a safe level for CO2 is below 350 parts per million," said Alex Rogers of the Zoological Society of London and International Programme on the State of the Ocean, who helped organise yesterday's meeting.
(10) Creatures across land, rivers and the seas are being decimated as humans kill them for food in unsustainable numbers, while polluting or destroying their habitats, the research by scientists at WWF and the Zoological Society of London found.
(11) Freemartinism in two animals from a captive herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) at the Denver Zoological Gardens (Denver, Colorado, USA) is described.
(12) At present the holotype materials are deposited at the department of Zoology, Girls College of Education, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
(13) October 17, 2012 3.18pm BST Prof Rosie Woodroffe at the Zoological Society of London's Institute of Zoology , who coordinated the letter published in the Observer last Sunday, has sent me the original letter for anyone who wants to see the accompanying footnotes and references.
(14) Three animals housed at the National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C. were studied; two had visible goiters, and a third bongo had microscopic evidence of goiter.
(15) In conventional (CV) mice, the frequencies were 6.2 in males and 5.3 in females (data from Zoological Science 2:249-255, 1985), with no significant differences compared with GF mice.
(16) The programs are equally suitable for botany or for zoology, or even for non-biological data.
(17) Iain Valentine, director of giant pandas for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland , said: "As you are all probably aware, giant panda Tian Tian is now past her due date and the evidence suggests that this may be bad news.
(18) Groups included in the document such as the Food and Drink Federation, British Retail Consortium and Zoological Society of London all report progress and reaffirm their commitment to source 100% CSPO by the end of 2015.
(19) Jaeger was founded in 1884 by Lewis Tomalin, an accountant who was inspired by a health craze promulgated by Gustav Jaeger , a professor of zoology from Stuttgart.
(20) We describe the case of a lion tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), housed at the National Zoological Park in Washington DC, that had a polyarticular inflammatory arthropathy resembling RA.