| 单词 | botany |
| 释义 | botany (once / 649 pages) n The study of plants is called botany. Each climate has its own particular botany, so if you study desert growth, you might focus on such plants as cactus and sage, while if you're in the jungle you'd study the lush growth there. Someone once said, "Botany is the science in which plants are known by their aliases." Indeed, the study of botany includes learning the scientific names of plants. The origin of the word botany came from the Greek word botane, which means "grass" or "pasture." Since the original meaning focused on the idea of a pasture, it's possible the study of botany came about from herdsmen needing to know what plants were safe for their herds to eat. WORD FAMILYbotany: botanic, botanical, botanies, botanise, botanist, botanize+/botanic: botanically/botanical: botanicals/botanise: botanised, botanises, botanising/botanist: botanists/botanize: botanized, botanizes, botanizing USAGE EXAMPLESA doctoral candidate at UC Riverside’s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Chater is cultivating and studying the same pomegranates his grandfather once grew. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) For traumatized, trench-bound British soldiers caught up in the carnage of the First World War, birdwatching and botany offered solace. Nature(Nov 15, 2016) What felt like a choice between death or deformity was being left to a journalist who never got beyond college botany. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) 1n the branch of biology that studies plants Syn|Hypo|Hyper phytology mycology the branch of botany that studies fungi and fungus-caused diseases pomologythe branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits palaeobotany, paleobotanythe study of fossil plants algology, phycologythe branch of botany that studies algae pteridologythe branch of botany that studies ferns palaeodendrology, paleodendrologythe branch of paleobotany that studies fossil trees biological science, biology the science that studies living organisms 2n all the plant life in a particular region or period the botany of China Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper flora, vegetation fauna, zoology all the animal life in a particular region or period browse vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicketa dense growth of bushes growthvegetation that has grown bush, chaparral, scrubdense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes standa growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area forest, wood, woodsthe trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area shrubberya collection of shrubs growing together gardenthe flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden brier, brier patch, brierpatchtangled mass of prickly plants ground cover, groundcoverlow-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow brakean area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant canebrakea dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) spinneya copse that shelters game boska small wooded area grovea small growth of trees without underbrush junglean impenetrable equatorial forest rain forest, rainforesta forest with heavy annual rainfall underbrush, undergrowth, underwoodthe brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest Hernaria glabra, rupturewortcommon prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures whitlowwortany of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) pearl-weed, pearlweed, pearlwortany of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls Helxine soleirolia, Soleirolia soleirolii, baby tears, baby's tearsprostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves old growth, virgin forestforest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity second growtha second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
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