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adj
Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of or pertaining to plants; vegetable in the broad sense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: nonstandard, not-comparable
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noun
Something derived from a botanical, especially herbal, source.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cooking, cosmetics, food, lifestyle, medicine, sciences
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adjective
of or relating to plants or botany
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: botanic
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Broader terms: drug
History
Etymology tree English botany Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English botanical From botany + -ical.
Across languages
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
