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PHYTOCHEMISTRY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The branch of organic chemistry dealing with the chemistry of plants
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("phytochemistry" is a kind of...):
organic chemistry (the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially))