phytologicallyadj.
/ˌfʌɪtə(ʊ)ˈlɒdʒᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌfaɪdəˈlɑdʒək(ə)li/ Now rare.
From a phytological point of view; botanically.
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1842 W. S. Landor in Foreign Q. Rev. July 339 If the saying is not phytologically true, it is poetically.
1876 E. Cooper Forest Culture & Eucalyptus Trees Introd. 7 The trees of Australia, phytologically named and arranged, with indications of their territorial distribution.
1882 Trans. Anthropol. Soc. 1 92 From that point of view Australia would be the youngest continent, after which would follow South America, then North America, making the Old World in fact old zoologically and phytologically as well as anthropologically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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