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单词 botanology
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botanologyn.

Brit. /ˌbɒtəˈnɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌbɑtnˈɑlədʒi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: botano- comb. form, -ology comb. form.
Etymology: < botano- comb. form + -ology comb. form. In sense 2 perhaps after post-classical Latin botanologia botany (1579 or earlier). Compare Hellenistic Greek βοτανολογία weeding, and (with sense 2 and botanologer n.) Byzantine Greek βοτανολόγος person who gathers herbs.
1. Divination by plants; the study of mystical properties ascribed to plants or flowers. Cf. botanomancy n. rare (now historical).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > [noun] > by plants
botanomancy1610
botanology1656
daphnomancy1656
1656 P. K. Surfeit to A B C 33 Some talk of the virtue of herbs, others of the influence & effect of stars, Botanology and Astrology.
2014 J. P. Rhind Fragrance & Wellbeing x. 291 The language of flowers acquired religious, scientific and occult traditions, and even spawned a new study—botanology.
2. = botany n. 1. Now historical or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > botany > [noun]
herbarism1597
botany1647
botanics1658
botanology1658
phytology1658
herbalism1664
botanomy1716
botanism1725
plant science1846
wort-cunning1864
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 175 The Tree..which stricter Botanology will hardly allow to be Camphire.
1715 S. Switzer Nobleman, Gentleman, & Gardener's Recreation iv. 104 'Tis hard to find any thing in the whole Cycle of Botanology that has not an immediate Share of this virtual and diffusive Good.
1831 H. Livermore Wreath from Jessamine Lawn I. iii. 91 John Armly's powers in botanology.
1937 Music & Lett. 18 85 There is as little need for him to worry about..the length of his vocal cords as there is for a cricketer to know the number of bones in his wrist or the botanology of the willow-tree.
2009 L. Koerner Linnaeus: Nature & Nation 37 Linnaeus derived most aspects of his ‘completely new’ botanology from earlier naturalists.

Derivatives

botaˈnologer n. rare (now archaic) a person skilled in botanology.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > botany > [noun] > botanist
herbary1548
herbarian1577
herbarist1577
herborist1578
herbalist1594
herbist1611
herbister1623
botanist1647
botanic1655
botanologer1658
phytologist1706
philo-botanist1824
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 102 The wisedom of that eminent Botanologer [sc. Solomon].
1970 ‘Mercurius Oxoniensis’ Lett. of Mercurius 58 There are few elections in which a chymist or a botanologer is not put forward and pressed hard by the mechanick party.
botanoˈlogical adj. rare relating to botany.
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1887 N.E.D. Botanological.
2013 P. Bouras-Vallianatos Simon of Genoa's Med. Lexicon 38 The methodology follows the approach used by Stannard in his studies on Byzantine and late medieval pharmacological and botanological lexicography.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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