Botanic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to botany, or the scientific study of plants.
  • noun. A botanist.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants.
  • adjective. a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany.
  • adjective. a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.
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  • adjective. Of or pertaining to botany.
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  • adjective. of or relating to plants or botany
  • Word Usage
    "This last kind is frequently called the botanic stove as it is most common in botanic gardens; and it is best adapted for growing palms, and other monocotyledonous plants with large leaves, such as bananas, which require abundance of air and light."
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