How to Use botany in a Sentence

botany

noun

• There was a secretary whose wife was very involved in botany.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
• The Arnold Arboretum explains the botany of booze (but no samples), 6pm-7:30pm.
  — Mike Deehan, Axios, 29 July 2024
• Her passion for teaching botany is what brought her to the school.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Decay is as much a part of botany as growth is — maybe even more, since decay gets the last word.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• In the painstakingly slow field of botany, that’s going at warp speed.
  — Wired, 6 July 2022
• Newmark plans to set up a garden in her yard for the kindergartners to learn botany.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• But despite my lack of knowledge of botany, for some reason this idea sort of felt fun.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2019
• Proof that botany, a least a little, has the perennial power to smooth things over.
  — Daniel Stone, Time, 20 Mar. 2018
• Still to come is a botany facility that Niebuhr said had just gone out for bid.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• Yet the study of viruses started not in medical science, but in botany, the study of plants.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• The Moldovans are parents to Marisa who is a botany enthusiast.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2019
• Returned from a long war, two brothers have taken up the peaceful art of botany.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Poinsett was interested in botany and sent shrubs of the wildflower back to the U.S.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• There’s a handy botany term of good use here: peltate, meaning the stem (the petiole) attaches to the leaf from underneath.
  — Kenneth Setzer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• The modern practice of botany and ecology is full of stories like this.
  — Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2021
• What led you to include ethnobotany and botany in your artwork?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2021
• Others have argued that toxic botany offers women a way to equal the score with men.
  — Amandas Ong, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2018
• There were also Indigenous people in this region who knew a lot about the botany.
  — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
• There’s a handy botany term of good use here: peltate, meaning the stem (the petiole) attaches to the leaf not at the leaf’s margin, but from underneath.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 6 July 2017
• Then, there was the showstopper: 1,000 lit up elderflowers, a bright homage to the botany that makes up St-Germain liqueur.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 June 2018
• What a tree is—tree botany in its essentials—feels utterly changed.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
• The novelist suffers no such injunction, but most of them don’t know beans about botany.
  — Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• Fast forward several decades and now Drori is a botany expert in his own right, even serving as a trustee at Kew for a stint.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2021
• In India, Sital spent 15 years as a college professor of plant science and botany.
  — Janet H. Cho, cleveland.com, 31 May 2017
• But the word has taken some curious turns beyond botany.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2018
• Fortunately for fans of botany and the royals alike, grounds of his Tetbury property are open to the public for tours during the warmer months of the year.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2019
• Later that day, her students would tear those silky petals from their stems, counting stamens and pistils to learn botany.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• There’s a whole unit on cedar and another on rushes that blend botany with music and history lessons.
  — Anna V. Smith/high Country News, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
• But guess what, there are a lot of organizations and channels that would want your content about botany.
  — Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2022
• His role was to gather and preserve his tribe’s myths and tales, its knowledge of medicinal botany, its ways of hunting and planting.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024