Phrase Hound found 6 phrases and 15 compound words that contain botany. The most common are listed below. Open botany in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 6
- Botany BayA bay of New South Wales, south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.
- Port BotanyA suburb of Sydney in the Randwick council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- Botany Bay greensSynonym of New Zealand spinach: A plant whose leaves are used as spinach-like greens, Tetragonia tetragonioides
- Botany Bay dozen25 lashes, i.e. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment.
- Botany Bay feverPenal servitude; transportation.
- Botany Bay dozensplural of Botany Bay dozen: 25 lashes, i.e. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment.
Compound words 15
- xenobotanyThe study of alien plants.
- archeobotanyAlternative form of archaeobotany: Paleoethnobotany.
- archæobotanyAlternative form of archaeobotany: Paleoethnobotany.
- astrobotanySynonym of xenobotany: The study of alien plants.
- botaneseScientific jargon used by botanists.
- botanophileA person with an interest in botany.
- botanophilistSynonym of botanophile: A person with an interest in botany.
- ethnomedicobotanyThe study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people within a medical context or application
- macrobotanyThe study of plant remains from archaeological sites that are large enough to be viewed with the naked eye or with a low-powered microscope.
- microbotanyThe study of microscopic plant parts, or microbotanical remains, that can only be viewed with a high-powered microscope.