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botanic
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Botanic may refer to either: an adjective related to botany , the study of plants Botanic, Belfast , an electoral ward of Belfast named after Belfast's Botanic Gardens
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French botanique (17c.) or directly from Medieval Latin botanicus , from Greek botanikos "of herbs," from botane "a plant, grass, pasture, fodder." The Greek words seems to have more to do with pasturage than plants; compare related botamia ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Botanic \Bo*tan"ic\, Botanical \Bo*tan"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. botanique. See Botany .] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Bo*tan"ic*al*ly , adv. Botanic garden , a garden ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to botany.
Usage examples of botanic.
Botanic Gardens, and I not having the least notion that you cared a rap for all those odiously rare plants!
To you a lover of language and a Latinist they must have a significance beyond their botanic qualities.
Do you remember, Severian, how it was when we left the Botanic Garden?
Darwin, in his Botanic Garden, says, "So to the sacred Sun in Memnon's fane Spontaneous concords choired the matin strain.
All were compelled to recognize that ever aside from its unparalleled proportions and habit of growth, the thing was in no sense alliable with any mundane botanic genera.
Lyra had been whispering to Mary, and then they, too, embraced, and first Mary and then Will stepped through the last window, back into their own world, in the shade of the trees of the Botanic Garden.
Scott has frequently seen this gesture in the Bengalees and Dhangars (the latter constituting a distinct race) who are employed in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta.
Christ Church Meadow, Radcliffe Square, the college quads, Catte Street and Turl Street, Queens Lane and much of the High Street, the botanic garden, Port Meadow, University Parks, Clarendon House, the whole of north Oxford - all very fine.
Four years later he was named curator of the Botanic Garden at Harvard University, a position he held with distinction for a dozen years, and somehow also found time to become a leading authority on birds, producing a celebrated text on American ornithology in 1832.
The natural dam held back a botanic garden of greenery: vertical walls bearded with maidenhair ferns, beds of lush watercress, myriads of colorful flowers Tommy could not identify.
When Agia and I left the Botanic Gardens, Dorcas was still with us.
You didn't think I let you and that other gal leave, the Botanic Gardens alone, did you?
It was his own button, the one she had torn off in a heated moment in the Botanic Gardens!
That phone call Anita had received while we were in the botanic gardens had told her that my personal effects had been packed and delivered to Left Luggage at the shuttle station.
Cultivation experiments with Buchu have been made from time to time by private persons, and during the war experiments were conducted at the National Botanic Gardens, Kirstenbosch (near Cape Town), the result of which (given in the South African Journal of Industries, 1919, 2, 748) indicate that, under suitable conditions, the commercial cultivation of Buchu should prove a success, B.