ethnobotanicadj.
/ˌɛθnəʊbəˈtanɪk/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊbəˈtænɪk/ Chiefly North American.
= ethnobotanical adj.
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1895 Bot. Gaz. 20 556 An ethno-botanic garden which shall serve for the instruction of the public as to aboriginal American plants.
1919 J. W. Fewkes in 33rd Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1911–12 54 Dr. J. W. Harshberger has well stated the practical uses and the correlations of ethnobotanic study.
1993 Nature 4 Mar. 27/2 A great influx of ethnobotanic knowledge came with the colonization of the New World.
2012 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 18 Mar. 10 d Guests can go on complimentary tours throughout the property's new botanic gardens, one of the first ethnobotanic gardens in the southeast.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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