Ethnobotany is the study of the relationship between
plants and
people: From"
ethno" - study of people and "
botany" - study of plants. Ethnobotany is considered a branch of
ethnobiology. Ethnobotany studies the complex relationships between (uses of) plants and cultures. The focus of ethnobotany is on how plants have been or are used, managed and perceived in human societies and includes plants used for food, medicine, divination, cosmetics, dyeing, textiles, for building, tools, currency, clothing, rituals and social life.
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1. The science or study of how members of particular cultural groups identify, categorize, cultivate, and utilize plants. 2. The plant and farming lore of a people or race.