How to Use botany in a Sentence

botany

noun
  • 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
  • The contemporary world of botany is divided over the matter of how plants sense the world and whether they can be said to communicate.
    The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • Echeverri López, who had recently graduated from the University of Antioquia in Medellín with a botany degree, was hired to help search for solutions.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024

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