botanology

English

Etymology

Compare French botanologie.

Noun

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

“botanology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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