Example sentences for: botany

How can you use “botany” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But, in 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip landed at Botany Bay (near the present Sydney) with a mixed party of convicts and their military custodians and sought to use what little knowledge had been passed on to him of the indigenous inhabitants, their language, and the new land's flora and fauna.

  • New research by botany professor Avinoam Danin (Hebrew National University in Jerusalem) lends credence to the theory that the Shroud of Turin is Jesus Christ's burial cloth.

  • Movable type revolutionized printing, books became more common, and literacy increased; Chinese scientists published works on botany, astronomy, mathematics, and geography.

  • Juvenile female opossums (n = 28) were weaned at 56 days and individually housed at 84 days in polycarbonate cages (30 × 30 × 15 cm) in a mixed-sex colony in an American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care-approved facility in the Botany and Zoology Building at The Ohio State University.

  • Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?


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