phytosociologyn.
/ˌfʌɪtəʊsəʊʃɪˈɒlədʒi/, /ˌfʌɪtəʊsəʊsɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˈˌfaɪdoʊˌsoʊsiˈɑlədʒi/, /ˈˌfaɪdoʊˌsoʊʃ(i)ˈɑlədʒi/ The branch of science which deals with plant communities, their composition and development, and the relationships between the species within them. Also: the phytosociological features of a region.
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the world > plants > botany > [noun] > specific branches or aspects of botany
phytognomy1643
topology1659
vegetable statics1691
cryptogamy1783
fossil botany1822
nomology1825
structural botany1835
phytochemistry1837
phytochimy1847
phytogeography1847
astrobotany1851
phytonomy1851
phytophysiology1854
palaeophytology1857
phytobiology1860
phytopathology1864
plant physiology1870
palaeobotany1872
plant geography1878
phytopalaeontology1879
plant pathology1891
ethnobotany1896
floristic1898
phyteconomy1898
phytoteratology1898
phytoecology1899
geobotany1904
phytosociology1917
archaeobotany1954
palaeoethnobotany1959
1917 Sci. Monthly May 456 Plant sociology (or phytosociology), the science of plant societies, or vegetation, is analogous in many ways to human sociology.
1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. p. vii Phytosociology, the study of vegetation, has had a very rapid development.
1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens vii. 87 Phytosociology is probably the most thoroughly investigated aspect of lichen biology.
1973 Nature 30 Mar. 354/2 In the chapter dealing with the phytosociology of heathlands, the reader might be forgiven for gaining the impression that..the southern limit of heathland is France.
1994 New Scientist 21 May 38/1 Most Europeans and Scandinavians invented names under the guise of phytosociology and geobotany, describing the parts of their cultural landscapes as they tried to assess the make-up of the natural vegetation that was there before people arrived.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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