How to Use botany in a Sentence

botany

noun
  • Alpine hiking with botany and wildlife.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2026
  • This is a must-do for botany nerds seeking a nature fix.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2026
  • Her passion for teaching botany is what brought her to the school.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • There was a secretary whose wife was very involved in botany.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
  • Decay is as much a part of botany as growth is — maybe even more, since decay gets the last word.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • In the painstakingly slow field of botany, that’s going at warp speed.
    — Wired, 6 July 2022
  • On the contrary, botany was a walk in the park, a pastime for the people.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But despite my lack of knowledge of botany, for some reason this idea sort of felt fun.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Newmark plans to set up a garden in her yard for the kindergartners to learn botany.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Returned from a long war, two brothers have taken up the peaceful art of botany.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • Still to come is a botany facility that Niebuhr said had just gone out for bid.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • What led you to include ethnobotany and botany in your artwork?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2021
  • What a tree is—tree botany in its essentials—feels utterly changed.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
  • Proof that botany, a least a little, has the perennial power to smooth things over.
    — Daniel Stone, Time, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Others have argued that toxic botany offers women a way to equal the score with men.
    — Amandas Ong, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The modern practice of botany and ecology is full of stories like this.
    — Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Yet the study of viruses started not in medical science, but in botany, the study of plants.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The novelist suffers no such injunction, but most of them don’t know beans about botany.
    — Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Other kinds of learning might involve images, such as when studying botany.
    — Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • Klorane is a leader in botany practices and promotes clean products.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 29 Apr. 2022
  • As if Sourland was a fortress and not a patchwork of trees, fields, and potheads tripping on botany.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Forensic botany lies at the crossroads between plant science and forensics.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Later that day, her students would tear those silky petals from their stems, counting stamens and pistils to learn botany.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • There were also Indigenous people in this region who knew a lot about the botany.
    — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
  • There’s a whole unit on cedar and another on rushes that blend botany with music and history lessons.
    — Anna V. Smith/high Country News, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
  • But guess what, there are a lot of organizations and channels that would want your content about botany.
    — Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Moldovans are parents to Marisa who is a botany enthusiast.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2019
  • At first, Davis says, his work was pure botany, just filling out the Coffea family tree.
    — Marta Zaraska, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • His role was to gather and preserve his tribe’s myths and tales, its knowledge of medicinal botany, its ways of hunting and planting.
    — The Economist, 28 May 2020
  • In the pursuit of deeper rest, embracing botany in the bedroom is a transformative choice.
    — Rebecca Torres, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025

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