Meanings
- dateduncountablebiologyThe study of the internal structures of plants.
Phytotomy, or anatomy of plants
1821, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, K. Sprengel, anonymous translator, Elements of the Philosophy of Plants, translation of original in German2 more examples
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.
1877, George Gulliver, “List of Plants which afford Raphides, Sphæraphides, Long Crystal Prisms, and Short Prismatic Crystals”, in Henry Lawson, editor, The Monthly Microscopical JournalAnatomy may be divided into two great classes, Phytotomy, or vegetable anatomy, and Zoötomy, or animal anatomy.
1895, William Darling, The Essentials of Anatomy
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰuH-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰuHyéti
- Ancient Greekφῠ́ω (phŭ́ō)
- Ancient Greekφῠτός (phŭtós)
- Ancient Greekφῠτόν (phŭtón)
- Englishphyto-
- Proto-Indo-European*temh₁-
- Ancient Greekτέμνω (témnō)
- Englishphytotomy
Translations
German Phytotomie
- Phytotomiestudy of the internal structures of plants
Italian fitotomia
- fitotomiastudy of the internal structures of plants
Spanish fitotomía
- fitotomíastudy of the internal structures of plants
Cite this entry
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