Provides explanations for a wide range of terms and phrases related to botanical subjects including horticulture, agriculture, taxonomy, cell biology, and plant pathology

Book by Coombes, Allen J.

Product Description: This text, with over 2900 entries and 1200 explanatory diagrams, covers in non-technical language all gardening, horticultural and botanical terms generally encountered in the sphere of gardening.

This unique dictionary is an authoritative and up-to-date reference book on all aspects of the study of plants. While many of the over 5,000 entries in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany have been taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Natural History, a substantial number have been written especially for this volume. Completely comprehensive, this dictionary offers concise and accessible explanations of terms from biogeology, evolution, earth history, and all the earth sciences, as well as up-to-date entries on more current fields of interest such as ecology, genetics, plant physiology, biochemistry, and cytology. In addition, the book offers world-wide coverage of taxonomic groups and takes full account of recent taxonomical revisions. One-third of the entries are devoted to taxa, from bacteria and fungi to the main groups of flowering and non-flowering plants. Brief biographical sketches of important botanists are also included. With almost twice the number of entries as any similar dictionary, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany is perfect for amateur botanists, and anyone interested in the world around us.

Offers more than 1700 illustrated definitions of terms used in plant identification keys and descriptions, with definitions for more than 2400 taxonomic terms

Lists more than sixteen thousand scientific and vernacular plant names, and describes name origins and the characteristics of plants

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Presents a history of plant names with information on meaning and classification (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date paperback dictionary of botany available. Drawing on the information contained in the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Natural History, the text has been fully revised for this new edition, with over 5500 clear and concise entries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains terms and concepts in physiology, cell biology, microbiology, horticulture, genetics, plant pathology, and botany

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Provides explanations for more than two thousand terms and phrases in the field of botany.

This unique dictionary is an authoritative and up-to-date reference book on all aspects of the study of plants. While many of the over 5,000 entries in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany have been taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Natural History, a substantial number have been written especially for this volume. Completely comprehensive, this dictionary offers concise and accessible explanations of terms from biogeology, evolution, earth history, and all the earth sciences, as well as up-to-date entries on more current fields of interest such as ecology, genetics, plant physiology, biochemistry, and cytology. In addition, the book offers world-wide coverage of taxonomic groups and takes full account of recent taxonomical revisions. One-third of the entries are devoted to taxa, from bacteria and fungi to the main groups of flowering and non-flowering plants. Brief biographical sketches of important botanists are also included. With almost twice the number of entries as any similar dictionary, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany is perfect for amateur botanists, and anyone interested in the world around us.

Presents more than five thousand entries covering plants and their environments.