Phytotomy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Phytotomy is a noun meaning (botany, dated) The study of the internal structures of plants.
Meaning
(botany, dated) The study of the internal structures of plants.
Example Sentences
Phytotomy, or anatomy of plants
Anatomy may be divided into two great classes, Phytotomy, or vegetable anatomy, and Zoötomy, or animal anatomy.
Having often been asked for the names of the plants in which these crystals may be most conveniently examined and distinguished, probably a short list of them, with a few explanatory remarks, would be useful to the students of this interesting and too much neglected branch of microscopic phytotomy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phytotomist, phytography, phytophagy, phytomorphology, phytomorphologist, phytomorph.
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