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Definition of botany:

A book which treats of the science of botany.
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.

Synonyms:

applied or economic botany, phytology, study of flora, physiology, pathology, plant, cytology, flora, anatomy, biology, study of vegetation, paleobotany, horticulture, plant life, taxonomy, phytogeography, study of plant life, vegetation.

botany (part of speech: noun)
- ecology

Usage examples:

In order to fully exhaust the question how far natural selection is capable of accounting for everything, it would be necessary to take a very wide view of natural history and botany, which it is quite impossible for us to attempt.

- "Creation and Its Records", B.H. Baden-Powell.
" He's like us, students of botany," laughed Ethel Blue.

- "Ethel Morton's Enterprise", Mabell S.C. Smith.
It is not strange that Charlton did not sleep that night, that he was a prey to conflicting emotions, blessing the cool, intellectual, self- possessed face of Miss Minorkey, who knew botany, and inwardly cursing the fate that had handed little Katy over to be the prey of such a man as Smith Westcott.

- "The Mystery of Metropolisville", Edward Eggleston.