Crossword-Solution: BOTANY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Botany | a. & n. | The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant. |
| Botany | a. & n. | A book which treats of the science of botany. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BOTANY (5)
Don’t they look as if they were single diamonds and sapphires? Well, you can imagine any mad botany or geology you please.
And new dishes, my dear--white, with yellow jonquils (we think), though they may be roses; there is no botany expert in the house.
See Botany.] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
For Richard Hilton had soon mastered the elements of botany, as taught by Priscilla Wakefield,--the only source of Asenath's knowledge,--and entered, with her, upon the text-book of Gray, a copy of which he procured from Philadelphia.
Nevertheless, a certain amount of it is still carried on near Sydney, and very neatly and scientifically carried on, too--principally by gentlemen who live out Botany way and do not care for public opinion.
Quotes with BOTANY (3)
Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and…
This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly looking elderly man with whom Fortey chatted genially and familiarly as we proceeded upwards at about the rate that sediments are laid down. When the man departed, Fortey said to me: "That was a very nice chap named Norman who's spent forty-two years studying one species of plant, St. John's wort. He retired in 1989, but he still comes in every week.""How do you spe…
That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. He just looks at things, but nothing he looks at is ever the same again. Including me, I suspect.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 42 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).