Meaning of phytotomy | Babel Free

Definitions

The study of the internal structures of plants.

dated, uncountable

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Examples

“Phytotomy, or anatomy of plants”

“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.”

“Anatomy may be divided into two great classes, Phytotomy, or vegetable anatomy, and Zoötomy, or animal anatomy.”

CEFR level