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botanics

botanics

See also: botànics

English

Noun

botanics

plural of botanic

Noun

botanics ‎(uncountable)

The science of botany.
- 2007, Marta Dvorak, ‎W. H. New, Tropes and Territories (page 350)
  We can't write or speak of the knowing or feeling of a plant in something other than the language we write or speak in. Botanics must ground itself in that inherent limitation.