PHYTOCHEMISTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phytochemistry mean? 

• PHYTOCHEMISTRY (noun)
  The noun PHYTOCHEMISTRY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of organic chemistry dealing with the chemistry of plants

  Familiarity information: PHYTOCHEMISTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYTOCHEMISTRY (noun)

Sense 1

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))