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phytography|faɪˈtɒgrəfɪ, fɪt-|
[ad. mod.L. phytographia: see phyto- and -graphy.]
1. Description of plants; descriptive botany.
[1691Plukenet (title) Phytographia, seu Stirpium illustrium et minus cognitarum Icones.] 1696Ray in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 202, I shall..put down what I find in..Plukenet's Phytography. 1730–6Bailey (folio) Pref., Phytography,..a Treatise or Physiological Description of Plants and Vegetables. 1836Henslow Phys. Bot. Introd. 3 A third..department is styled ‘Phytography’, in which a full description of plants themselves is given. 1885G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. (1892) 3 Phytography or Descriptive Botany.
2. = phytoglyphy.
Hence phyˈtographer, an expert in or writer on phytography; phytoˈgraphic, phytoˈgraphical adjs., pertaining to phytography.
1890Cent. Dict., *Phytographer.
1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 618 A new Set of *Phytographic Tables. 1888Nature 5 July 220/1 The introductory narrative..enables a phytographic botanist to apprehend the nature of the country [Afghanistan] and climate.
1828–32Webster, *Phytographical, pertaining to the description of plants. |