botanical

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: bo=tan=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

botanical, a. [Cf. F. botanique. See Botany.].

 Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.  [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.

THESAURUS

botanical

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

ROGET THESAURUS

botanical

Botany

N botany, physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany, phytography, phytology, phytotomy, vegetable physiology, herborization, dendrology, mycology, fungology, algology, flora, romona, botanic garden, hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal, botanist, herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian, botanical, botanic.