botanica
8.2
The study of plants and how they live
- noun
- /bəˈtænɪkə/
- Specialized
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botánica
- The university offers a course in botanica that focuses on plant sciences and their ecological importance.
- Philosophia Botanica
Examples
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Many students are drawn to the field of botanica for its emphasis on understanding plant biology and conservation.
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- A Botanica?
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In his Philosophia Botanica (1751), Linnaeus, renowned for his system of botanical classification that ordered plants according to their sexual parts, proposed groundbreaking investigations into horological processes in the vegetable world.
Academic text (2017) -
In her thesis on botanica, she explored the medicinal properties of various native plants.
Synonyms
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5.1
The study of plants and how they live
is the Spanish-derived term often used in bilingual or academic settings
9.9
The science that studies plants and how they live
is the Spanish-derived academic term used in bilingual or regional contexts
Surface Forms
Etymology
Botanica is the Spanish form of the word botany, which means the study of 'plants'. So, in schools or bilingual academic settings botanica is used to mean the subject or science that studies plants.