Botany, plant science(s), or plant biology (from Ancient Greek βοτάνη botane, "pasture, grass, or fodder" and that from βόσκειν boskein, "to feed or to graze"), a discipline of biology, is the science of plant life. Traditionally, botany included the study of fungi, algae and viruses. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines including structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, chemical properties, and evolutionary relationships among taxonomic groups. Botany began with early human efforts to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science. Today botanists study about 400,000 species of living organisms.

Plants are essential as food and for all people and also as recreation for people who enjoy gardening, horticulture, and culinary arts.

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

Derived terms

• botanically
• botanist

• botanize
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