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Heterotaxy :: Heterotaxy (n.) Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement..

Phytology :: Phytology (n.) The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany.

Treasury :: Treasury (n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, Maunder's Treasury of Botany..

Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..

Botanical :: Botanical (a.) Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition..

Obvoluted :: Obvoluted (a.) Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap..

System :: System (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military sys

Phytolithology :: Phytolithology (n.) The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology..

Paleobotany :: Paleobotany (n.) That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Paleobotanist :: Paleobotanist (n.) One versed in paleobotany.

Dictionary :: Dictionary (n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary..

Botanist :: Botanist (n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

Botanology :: Botanology (n.) The science of botany.

Agrostology :: Agrostology (n.) That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

Pteridology :: Pteridology (n.) That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Protophytology :: Protophytology (n.) Paleobotany.

Botany Bay :: Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770..

Paleophytology :: Paleophytology (n.) Paleobotany.

Cryptogamist :: Cryptogamist (n.) One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

Nomenclature :: Nomenclature (n.) The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates..

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