Botany
['bɒt(ə)nɪ] or ['bɑtəni]
解釋/意思:
(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.
(a. & n.) A book which treats of the science of botany.
錄入:劳伦斯
解釋/意思:
n. the science of plants.—adj. Botan′ic.—adv. Botan′ically.—v.i. Bot′anise to seek for and collect plants for study.—ns. Bot′anist one skilled in botany; Bot′anomancy divination by means of plants esp. the leaves of the sage and fig.—Botany Bay a famous convict settlement in New South Wales near to what is now Sydney: convict settlements generally.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The science of vegetables—those that are not good to eat as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers which are commonly badly designed inartistic in color and ill-smelling.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It was elementary botany. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I am sure they should be arrested, cribbed, tried, and brought in for Botany Bay, at the very least. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It appeared that she had minutely studied the botany of English fields and woods. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There is nothing in the elementary study of botany which cannot be introduced in a vital way in connection with caring for the growth of seeds. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In his automobile he has made long tours, and with his family has particularly indulged his taste for botany. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We may secure technical specialized ability in algebra, Latin, or botany, but not the kind of intelligence which directs ability to useful ends. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Pliny thought that each plant had its special virtue, and much of his botan y is applied botany. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- His pupil and lifelong friend, and successor as leader o f the Peripatetic school of philosophy, Theophrastus, combined a knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, botany, and mineralogy. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Physical astronomy, physical geography, meteorology, ph ysics, chemistry, geology, botany, anatomy, physiology, embryology, and zo?logy were enriched by his teaching. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Theophrastus was the founder of the science of botany, Dioscorides the founder of materia medica. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- If ye could transport your tenant, Mr. Moore, to Botany Bay, ye'd happen do better. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In the field of botany Aristotle had a wide knowledge of natural phenomena, and raised general questions as to mode of propagation, nourishment, relation of plants to animals, etc. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- She entered into a discourse on botany with the gentle Mrs. Dent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In the reco rds of Egyptian medical practice can be traced the origin of chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and botany. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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