Garden variety?

Usage examples of botanical.

Twin seed-cases that Zephyr assumed to be engine housings hung below her, bizarrely botanical, surrounded in plastic sheeting behind which Arachno engineers worked with cautious movements.

From a wiry old woman with mud-brown skin, he mastered the botanical secrets of the land, learning how to make curare from strychnos vines, malarial prophylaxes from cinchona bark, barbasco insect repellent, and a topical painkiller from waxy red genipa berries.

South American plant, this botanical insecticide was discovered in the early 1940s and has proved good for control of codling moths in apple, pear and quince trees.

They dripped sour water across the Great Loop Highway like botanical stalactites.

Wilhelm Hofacker who teaches iatrochemistry and assists me in the botanical gardens.

In 1866 the Ray Society reprinted, under the editorship of his friend and successor in the keepership of the Botanical Department of the British Museum, J.

Lawrence was in the middle of a sequence where he was making his way toward a domain that had bred the methane-grazing botanical organisms that a species of sentient octopeds needed to complete their colonization of a new planet.

It belongs to the botanical class Prunus Spinosa, or blackthorn, and it was covered with berries at the time of our visit.

He rummaged through the uncatalogued botanicals and found after what seemed like hours a crate shipped from Jalasca.

Were they intrinsic to the plants from which ayahuasca and yopo were derived, an example of an abiding botanical intelligence amplified and made comprehensible by an interfacing of vegetative alkaloids with human neurons?

He now resumed his breakneck speed, and in another little while they came to the botanical gardens which Morton, had he been conscious, would have recognized as just about where Bray and he had been the previous afternoon.

It is, at any rate, reasonable to suppose that, as Indian corn belongs to the same botanical order as wheat, barley, oats, rye, timothy, and other grasses, the general manurial requirements would be the same.

You know, as a child my ayah was a Roman Catholic, who would take us children to church-the one by the Botanical Gardens in Parel, if you know it.

The botanical name of an apple tree is Pyrus Malus, of which schoolboys are wont to make ingenious uses by playing on the latter word.

I really can hardly conceive a higher enjoyment than a botanical tour among the Alleghany mountains, to any one who had science enough to profit by it.