All articles starting with B

Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich

Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich: the University of Zurich's botanical garden at Zollikerstrasse 107, opened 27 May 1977 on the Villa Schönau estate, with three acrylic geodesic greenhouse domes and roughly 7,000–8,000 plant species; free entry.

Botany

Botany (phytology, plant science) is the branch of biology studying plants, algae, fungi, and lichens. From Theophrastus to DNA tree-of-life projects, it spans taxonomy, physiology, ecology, agriculture, and conservation of some 38 percent of tree species at risk.

Botany Bay

Botany Bay (Kamay) is a 39.6 km2 ocean bay 12 km south of Sydney, site of Cook's 1770 landing and the 1788 First Fleet arrival, now home to Port Botany, Sydney Airport, and the Kurnell desalination plant.

Oct 15, 2026

BOTAŞ

BOTAŞ, the Petroleum Pipeline Corporation, is Türkiye's state-owned oil and gas pipeline company, founded in 1974 to carry Iraqi crude and now dominant in gas imports.

Botaurus

Botaurus, the bittern genus (Ardeidae, Pelecaniformes), Stephens 1819; now includes former Ixobrychus small bitterns after Hruska et al. 2023. Includes Eurasian, American, Australasian, and Least Bitterns; reedbed birds with booming males.

Oct 15, 2026

Botball

Botball is an educational robotics program run by the nonprofit KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, where middle and high school teams program fully autonomous robots for tournament competition.

Botchan

Botchan (坊っちゃん) is a comic 1906 novel by Natsume Sōseki about a Tokyo mathematics teacher whose short-lived post in Matsuyama draws on the author's own experience.

Boteh

Boteh (بته), also transliterated buta, is a Persian decorative motif shaped like a curved teardrop or leaf, used for centuries on carpets, shawls, and textiles.

Botelho de Vasconcelos

Adriano Botelho de Vasconcelos, born 1955 in Malange, Angola, is an Angolan poet with nine poetry collections who won the 2003 Grande Prémio Sonangol for Tábua.

Botfly

Botfly: fly whose larvae are obligate parasites of living mammals (Oestridae), including Dermatobia hominis, the human bot fly of Central and South America, whose eggs ride mosquitoes (phoresy) and whose larvae develop under skin for 5-10 weeks.

Both Gach

Both Gach (born 1999, Austin, Minnesota) is a South Sudanese-American 6-6 wing; Utah/Minnesota NCAA player, 2022 undrafted, EuroCup winner with JL Bourg, now ASVEL EuroLeague, South Sudan national team.

Both Sides, Now

Both Sides, Now (also Both Sides Now) is a 1967 Joni Mitchell song inspired by Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King; a Judy Collins 1968 top-ten hit, recorded by Mitchell on Clouds (1969) and Both Sides Now (2000), covered over a thousand times.

Botham's Test, 1981 Headingley

Botham's Test is the 1981 Headingley Ashes Test in which England, following on 227 behind, won by 18 runs after Ian Botham's 149 not out.

Bothidae

Bothidae, the lefteye flounders, is a family of 170 flatfish species in 20 genera with both eyes on the left side; benthic sand- and mud-dwelling marine predators, now being reclassified genetically.

Botho Strauß

Botho Strauß, born 1944 in Naumburg (Saale), is a German writer known for plays like Trilogie des Wiedersehen and Groß und klein, and for the 1993 essay Anschwellender Bocksgesang.

Bothriochloa

Bothriochloa (bluestems), grass genus in Poaceae, Panicoideae, Andropogoneae; about 35-37 species of Old World tropics; forage grasses such as B. bladhii and B. ischaemum, invasive Old World bluestems in US rangelands.

Oct 20, 2026

Bothriolepis

Bothriolepis, an extinct genus of antiarch placoderm fish of the Devonian, named by Eichwald in 1840, with about 77 valid species, 50 cm length, cosmopolitan range, and a disputed lungs claim.

Bothrops

Bothrops (lanceheads) is a genus of about 50 venomous pit vipers of tropical America, cause most Latin American snakebites, venoms rich in SVMPs, SVSPs, PLA2; jararaca venom yielded first ACE inhibitors.

Bothrops asper

Bothrops asper, the terciopelo or fer-de-lance, is a large venomous lancehead pitviper from Mexico to northwestern South America; the most medically important snake in Central America, with strong sexual dimorphism and high venom variation.

Bothrops atrox

Bothrops atrox, the common lancehead or barba amarilla, is an Amazonian pitviper causing most regional snakebites; its coagulotoxic, non-neurotoxic venom varies geographically and ontogenetically, and Bothrops antivenoms neutralize it despite its exclusion from immunization pools.