Definition of "ethnobotany" [ethnobotany]

• The plant lore and agricultural customs of a people. (noun)
• The study of such lore and customs. (noun)

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• "Sounds cool enough, often involves reading in ethnobotany, but the main two bosses are just the sort of "whitist" types who get excited when there's a slight chance that the earliest people to come to the Americas might have been from Europe, probably because it might invalidate indigenous legal claims."
• "We need people that go into other cultures and survey their uses of natural compounds (a field called ethnobotany)."
• ""The science that explores the human uses of plants is a branch of botany known as ethnobotany," he said."