dictionary definitions for "botanic"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  botanic
      adj 1: of or relating to plants or botany; "botanical garden"
             [syn: botanic, botanical]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]


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