Definitions
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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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Old Tom is sweeter and more robust than London Dry — “more botanically intense,” Seed says — and it avoids the angular, medicinal aftertaste.
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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
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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
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And did you know, botanically speaking, banana is an herb?
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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.
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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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