Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOT'A-NY, n. [Gr. βοτανη, a plant; Pers. بُوتََه botah, a shrub; probably allied to bud, to shoot.]

Botany is the science 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. – Tully.