Difference between Phytology and Botany

What is the difference between Phytology and Botany?

Phytology as a noun is the study of plants; botany while Botany as a noun is the scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.

Phytology

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the study of plants; botany

Botany

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.The plant life, or the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.

Example sentence: I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.

We hope you now know whether to use Phytology or Botany in your sentence.

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