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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a botanical manner; after the manner of a botanist; according to a system of botany.

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  • adverb in a botanical manner
  • adverb regarding botany

Etymologies

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botanical +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It grows wild in the banks of hedges and waste cornfields, and is cultivated in our kitchen gardens as a salad herb, the Milk Grass, being called botanically the _Valerianella olitoria_, and having been in request as

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The Viper's Bugloss is called botanically _Echium_, having been formerly considered antidotal to the bite of (_Echis_) a viper: and its seed was thought to resemble the reptile's head: wherefore such a curative virtue became attributed to it after the doctrine of signatures.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The flowering Rush, or water gladiole, which grows by the banks of rivers is called botanically "butomus," from the Greek, _bous_, an ox, and _temno_, to cut, because the sharp edges of the erect three-cornered leaf-blades wound the cattle which come in contact with them, or try to eat them.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • As Mr. Hermes puts it: "Except for the Japanese break-dancers, the botanically advanced weed, the Republican mayor, the iPods, the pocket-sized Flip video cameras, the openly gay kids, and the relative lack of menace, it seems not unlike the old days" in present-day New York.

    New York Rock City Eric Been 2011

  • Old Tom is sweeter and more robust than London Dry — “more botanically intense,” Seed says — and it avoids the angular, medicinal aftertaste.

    Cocktails of the Past 2009

  • After receiving hundreds of emails for DIY tips on how to re-create their ‘succulent walls,’ Flora Grubb has produced a modular paneling system simple enough for even the most botanically inept to manage a beautiful living mosaic.

    Flora Grubb Panels Let You Design Your Own Vertical Garden | Inhabitat 2010

  • Those that are botanically inclined I am sure know how to care for their plants despite the one hour time change.

    A Fun Stupid Question, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • And did you know, botanically speaking, banana is an herb?

    » Tomatoes Really are Fruit Strocel.com 2009

  • There are so many wonders to behold, but your gaze will perhaps first be drawn up to the ceiling, which offers a singular treasure: an herbarium, depicting 578 acribically exact and botanically determinable plants, mostly medicinal, but also decorative plants, painted between 1614 and 1617, when the new nave was vaulted by Lazaro Agostino after a devastating fire in 1610.

    Catholic Bamberg: St. Michael's Abbey 2009

  • She buys from New Growth Designs, a wholesale web site selling botanically-correct flowers, plants and berries.

    Suzy Bales: Fake Flowers: Ever Green and Always Growing Suzy Bales 2010

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