Plural of botany; multiple branches of plant science or multiple botanical traditions or approaches.
From 'botany' plus the regular English plural suffix '-es.' Used when discussing different schools of botany or different approaches to studying plants across cultures and time periods.
There are actually many different 'botanies'—Western scientific botany, Indigenous botanical knowledge, ethnobotany (the study of how people use plants), and more. They're all valid ways of understanding the plant world, which is why the plural form is actually pretty useful!
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