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Professor :: Professor (n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy..

Sublapsarian :: Subkingdom (n.) One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoology, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia..

Hydrophytology :: Hydrophytology (n.) The branch of botany which treats of water plants.

Paleobotanist :: Paleobotanist (n.) One versed in paleobotany.

Orchidology :: Orchidology (n.) The branch of botany which treats of orchids.

Paleobotany :: Paleobotany (n.) That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Heterotaxy :: Heterotaxy (n.) Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement..

Cryptogamist :: Cryptogamist (n.) One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

Obvoluted :: Obvoluted (a.) Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap..

Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..

Phytology :: Phytology (n.) The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany.

Family :: Family (v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order..

Carpology :: Carpology (n.) That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.

Phytolithology :: Phytolithology (n.) The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology..

Paleophytology :: Paleophytology (n.) Paleobotany.

Agrostology :: Agrostology (n.) That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

Botanist :: Botanist (n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

Physiological :: Physiological (a.) Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry..

Botany :: Botany (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..

Pteridology :: Pteridology (n.) That department of botany which treats of ferns.

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