The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
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A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak. Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. Garden balsam, an ornamental plant ( Impatiens Balsamina). Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens. Garden glass.
A bell glass for covering plants.
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A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany. Garden house
A summer house.
--Beau. & Fl.-
A privy. [Southern U.S.]
Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
Garden mold or Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden.
--Mortimer.Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls.
--Knight.Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot, a watering pot.
Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
Garden spider, (Zo["o]l.), the diadem spider ( Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and Americ
It spins a geometrical we
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See Geometric spider, and Spider web.
Garden stand, a stand for flower pots.
Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]
Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, et
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Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.]
--Mortimer.Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc.
Hanging garden. See under Hanging.
Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
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 devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany.
Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.
Wiktionary
n. A botanical garden
Usage examples of "botanic garden".
Do you remember, Severian, how it was when we left the Botanic Garden?
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.