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Botany is the scientific study of plants: how they are built, how they grow, how they make seeds and flowers, and how we group them. It is a branch of biology — biology covers all living things, but botany is the plant part. You meet the word in school science and at university, and in the names of departments and books. Though actually, older writing also uses botany for the plants of a place (“the botany of this island”), meaning the plant life there, not the school subject. That use is less common now; most people would say flora or plant life instead.
植物學
組成Back-formation from botanic: people already had the adjective botanic, then they cut it down to make botany as the name of the subject (first recorded in 1696).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Botanyname
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A suburb of Sydney in the Bayside council area, New South Wales, Australia.
botanynoun/ˈbɒt.ə.ni/
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A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
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The plant life of a geographical area; flora.
- the botany of Greenland
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The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
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A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。