botany

English

Etymology

First attested in 1696: Back-formation from botanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtəni/, /ˈbɒtni/, /-ɪ/

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Noun

botany (countable and uncountable, plural botanies)

1. (uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.
2. The plant life of a geographical area; flora.

   the botany of Greenland

3. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
4. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.

Derived terms

• botanical
• botanically
• botanist

• botanize
• Botany Bay
• ethnobotany

• macrobotany
• microbotany
• paleobotany

Translations

scientific study of plants

• Afrikaans: plantkunde (af)
• Albanian: botanika
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلنَّبَات‎ m (ʿilm an-nabāt)
• Armenian: բուսաբանություն (hy) (busabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: botánica f
• Azerbaijani: botanika (az), nəbatatşünaslıq
• Basque: botanika (eu)
• Belarusian: бата́ніка f (batánika)
• Bengali: উদ্ভিদবিজ্ঞান (udbhidbiggan)
• Breton: louzawouriezh
• Bulgarian: бота́ника (bg) f (botánika)
• Burmese: ရုက္ခဗေဒ (my) (rukhka.beda.)
• Catalan: botànica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 植物學 (zh), 植物学 (zh) (zhíwùxué)

  Min Nan: 植物學 (si̍t-bu̍t-ha̍k)

• Czech: botanika (cs) f
• Danish: botanik (da)
• Dhivehi: ގަހަވީ އިލްމު‎ (gahavī ilmu)
• Dutch: plantkunde (nl), botanie (nl), botanica (nl)
• Esperanto: botaniko (eo), plantscienco
• Estonian: taimeteadus
• Faroese: plantufrøði f
• Finnish: kasvitiede (fi)
• French: botanique (fr) f
• Galician: botánica (gl) f
• Georgian: ბოტანიკა (boṭaniḳa)
• German: Botanik (de) f, Pflanzenkunde

  Alemannic German: Bflanzekùnd

• Greek: φυτολογία (el) f (fytología)
• Greenlandic: botanikki
• Gujarati: વનસ્પતિશાસ્ત્ર (vanaspatiśāstra)
• Haitian Creole: etid plant
• Hawaiian: kālailau nahele
• Hebrew: בוטניקה‎ (he) (bot'aniqa)
• Hindi: वनस्पति विज्ञान (vanaspati vigyān)
• Hungarian: növénytan (hu)
• Icelandic: grasafræði (is) f
• Indonesian: ilmu tumbuh-tumbuhan (id)
• Irish: luibheolaíocht f
• Italian: botanica (it) f
• Japanese: 植物学 (ja) (しょくぶつがく,shokubutsugaku)
• Kannada: ಸಸ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (sasyaśāstra), ಗಿಡದರಿಮೆ (kn) (giḍadarime)
• Korean: 식물학 (ko) (singmulhak) (植物學 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: giyanasî (ku)

• Latin: botanica (la) f

• Latvian: botānika f
• Limburgish: plantkónde
• Lithuanian: botanika (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Botanik
• Macedonian: ботаника f (botanika)
• Malay: kaji tumbuhan, botani
• Malayalam: സസ്യശാസ്ത്രം (sasyaśāstraṃ)
• Manx: lus-oaylleeaght
• Maori: mātauranga huaota, mātai tipu
• Marathi: वनस्पतीशास्त्र (vanaspatīśāstra)
• Mongolian: ургамалзүй (urgamalzüj), ургамал судлал (urgamal sudlal)
• Nahuatl: tlanelhuayomatiliztli
• Navajo: chʼil naalkaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plantelære

  Nynorsk: plantelære

• Occitan: botanica (oc) f
• Oriya: ଉଦ୍ଭିଦ ବିଜ୍ଞାନ (udbhidô bijñanô)
• Ossetian: ботаникӕ (botanikæ)
• Pashto: بوټپوهنه‎ (ps) f (buṭpohəna)
• Persian: گیاه‌شناسی‎ (giyâh-šenâsi)
• Polish: botanika (pl) f, roślinoznawstwo
• Portuguese: botânica (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬਨਸਪਤੀ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (banasapatī vigiān)
• Romanian: botanică (ro) f
• Russian: бота́ника (ru) f (botánika)
• Scottish Gaelic: luibh-eòlas m, luibh-eòlas
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ботаника f

  Roman: botanika (sh) f

• Slovak: botanika (sk) f
• Slovene: botanika (sl)
• Spanish: botánica (es) f
• Sundanese: élmu tutuwuhan
• Swahili: botania, elimumime
• Swedish: botanik (sv) c, växtlära (sv)
• Tagalog: dalubhalmanan
• Tajik: гиёҳшиносӣ (giyohšinosī)
• Tamil: தாவரவியல் (ta) (tāvaraviyal)
• Telugu: వృక్షశాస్త్రం (te) (vr̥kṣaśāstraṃ)
• Thai: พฤกษศาสตร์ (prʉ́k-sà-sàat)
• Turkish: botanik (tr), bitki bilimi (tr)
• Ukrainian: бота́ніка (uk) f (botánika)
• Vietnamese: thực vật học (vi) (植物學)
• Volapük: planav (vo)
• Walloon: botanike (wa) f
• Welsh: llysieueg (cy)

plant life of an area

• Finnish: kasvillisuus (fi), kasvisto (fi)

properties and life phenomena of plants

• Finnish: kasvibiologia
• Japanese: 植物生態 (shokubutsu sētai)

• Swedish: växtbiologi c

botanical treatise or study

• Finnish: kasvitieteellinen artikkeli (article), kasvitieteellinen tutkimus (study)

• Swedish: lärobok i botanik c (text book), flora (sv) c (floristics)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Novial: ^{(please verify)} botanike

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} گیاه‌شناسی‎ (giyâh-šenâsi)

See also

• wortlore