Botanic

3 definitions found

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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "botanic":
     bulbous, cereal, farinaceous, fruitlike, fruity, herbaceous,
     herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, leguminose, leguminous,
     phytobiological, phytochemical, phytologic, plantlike, pomological,
     radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, tuberous,
     vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy