botanology
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare French botanologie.
Noun[edit]
botanology (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The science of botany.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the Tree mentioned in the Canticle, which stricter Botanology will hardly allow to be Camphire.
References[edit]
- “botanology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.