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UK
/bətˈænɪkəl/
]
[ US /bəˈtænɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /bəˈtænɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to plants or botany
botanical garden
NOUN
- a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves)
How To Use botanical In A Sentence
- Botanical species in this ancient ecosystem included sagebrush, bluegrass, sedges, and herbs.
- A number of vitamins, minerals and botanicals have emerged as key players in the bone-building story, and scientists are still working for a better understanding of their roles.
- OK, our garden is based around ethnobotanical plants which are useful to people, not only for foods and medicines, but also for fibres, dyes, cosmetics, perfumes, poisons and so on.
- At Ingolstadt, the branchlike ribs are disjunctively representational, carved with protruding nubs or twigs signaling their botanical nature.
- Yet it is worth the price of entry for the view from the top-floor balcony, and for the botanical gardens that surround it. Times, Sunday Times
- As it is, the potato belongs to the botanical family, Solanacea, to which poisonous plants like the nightshade belong.
- For botany lessons, we crossed the road into the botanical gardens, there to examine the leaves of ash, oak, elm, plane, pine but no wattles, gums or banksias.
- Or investing in the agricultural sector so farmers are more able to meet demand for crops like Artemesia annua and pyrethrum, easily-grown botanical ingredients in anti-malarial drugs? Global Voices in English » Global Health: Twitter Face-Off To Fight Malaria
- Grapefruit, bananas and cloves will soon be growing in Sheffield as the next phase of the regeneration of the city's Botanical Gardens nears completion.
- Her teacher, noting her meticulous eye for detail, suggested she take lessons in botanical drawing. Times, Sunday Times