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单词 botanic
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botanicadj.n.

Brit. /bəˈtanɪk/, U.S. /bəˈtænɪk/
Forms: 1600s botannick, 1600s–1700s botanick, 1600s– botanic.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French botanique; Latin botanicus.
Etymology: < (i) French botanique, adjective (1611 in Cotgrave), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin botanicus of herbs (6th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek βοτανικός of herbs < ancient Greek βοτάνη plant (see botano- comb. form) + -ικός -ic suffix. With use as adjective compare earlier botanical adj. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin botanicus botanist (1641 in a British source). Compare also botanics n., botany n.Compare Spanish botánico, adjective (1726 or earlier) and noun (1747 or earlier), Portuguese botânico, adjective and noun (both 1680), Italian botanico, adjective (a1698) and noun (a1712).
A. adj.
1. Of or relating to botany or plants; = botanical adj. 1.Now largely superseded by botanical, except in the names of some older institutions, especially those founded before the second half of the 19th cent., such as ‘The Royal Botanic Gardens’ at Kew (cf. botanic garden n. at Compounds).
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the world > plants > botany > [adjective]
botanical1627
botanic1647
phytological1654
botanomical1656
palaeophytologic1969
1647 W. Petty Advice to Hartlib 16 The Apprentice shall read some good pharmaceuticall, Botanick and Chymicall Institutions.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Botanical or Botanic, belonging to Herbs or Plants.
1735 J. Thomson Greece: 2nd Pt. Liberty 140 Where..Hymettus spread..to botanick hand the stores of health.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 21 He probably engraved the botanic figures for Lobel's Observations.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Amphion in Poems (new ed.) II. 169 They read Botanic Treatises, And Works on Gardening thro' there.
1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 18 There seem to be no botanic distinctions sufficiently constant upon which to base a variety.
2013 Daily Tel. 31 July 19/1 It gained the name ‘Oxford ragwort’ because it was cultivated in the botanic garden of that city.
2. Designating or relating to herbal or botanical medicine; spec. (esp. in the 19th and early 20th centuries) designating a student or practitioner of botanical medicine (now chiefly historical). See also botanic medicine n. at Compounds. Cf. botanical adj. 2.
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1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients xciii. 240 Bring along with thee all thy Recipe's and Drugs. As for Botanic Remedies, we have enough.
1833 Thomsonian Recorder 23 Feb. 245/2 The arsenic that was found in a bottle of alcohol a botanic physician had procured.
1861 Q. Rev. 1 July 83/2 Students could have access to a library of approved botanic texts while working under the direction of botanic physicians.
1895 Med. News 66 120/1 The main body of the adherents..rejected Thomson's claims to a monopoly... They generally styled their system the botanic or botanico-medical system.
1915 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Med. 22 562/2 Just then the extravagant claims of an old botanic practitioner regarding the wonderful effects of Indian tobacco came to mind.
2011 J. M. Kriebs in T. L. King & M. C. Brucker Pharmacol. for Women's Health xxvi. 800/2 Herbal or botanic remedies (e.g., witch hazel, chamomile, aloe vera)..are also used.
B. n.
1. = botanist n. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > botany > [noun] > botanist
herbary1548
herbarian1577
herbarist1577
herborist1578
herbalist1594
herbist1611
herbister1623
botanist1647
botanic1655
botanologer1658
phytologist1706
philo-botanist1824
1655 R. Child in S. Hartlib Legacy (ed. 3) 154 Parkinson, an able Botanick, saith it [sc. Rattle-snake Grasse] flourisheth with us in June and July.
1676 J. Worlidge Apiarium v. 24 A Tree..esteemed injurious to Bees..by..our modern Botanicks.
1715 S. Switzer Nobleman, Gentleman, & Gardener's Recreation i. 37 We..come nearer to the History of these Times, and peruse the Writings of the Botanicks.
2. A student or practitioner of botanical medicine. Now chiefly historical.
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1835 Thomsonian Recorder 3 29/2 The least fortunate of Botanics, would loose [sic] nothing by a comparison with the most successful of the faculty perhaps in any country.
1888 Med. World 6 19 Neither has it [sc. the state] the right to compel him to employ a regular physician if he prefers a botanic, eclectic, or homeopath.
1948 Pacific Hist. Rev. 17 205 A full treatment is accorded the less respectable schools of thought such as the homeopaths and the botanics.
2000 J. S. Haller People's Doctors 132 This act meant that a botanic, no matter how successful, had no protection in the law.

Compounds

botanic garden n. = botanical garden n. at botanical adj. and n. Compounds. Also with capital initials in the names of particular institutions.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > public gardens
garden1612
spring garden1612
botanic garden1662
villaa1684
botanical garden1704
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden
grounda1500
knot-garden1519
back-garden1535
summer garden1589
spring garden1612
spring gardena1625
water gardena1626
walled gardena1631
wildernessa1644
window garden1649
botanic garden1662
Hanging Gardens1705
winter garden1736
cottage garden1765
Vauxhall1770
English garden1771
wall garden1780
chinampa1787
moat garden1826
gardenesque1832
sunk garden1835
roof garden1844
weedery1847
wild garden1852
rootery1855
beer-garden1863
Japanese garden1863
bog-garden1883
Italian garden1883
community garden1884
sink garden1894
trough garden1935
sand garden1936
Zen garden1937
hydroponicum1938
tub garden1974
rain garden1994
1662 E. Reynolds in H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum To Rdr. As rendred it [sc. this Body of Divinity] to me like a large Botanick garden, wherein there are Fruits for the Palate,..Flowers for the Eye, Rarities for the Curious..; something or other to please and entertain every comer.
1762 Public Advertiser 25 June The Plant of the true Socotorine Aloe may be procured from most of the Botanic Gardens about London.
1854 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 5 Jan. 115/1 Mr. Moore, of the Botanic Gardens, presented samples of two most delicious jams.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1126 The Cycads or sago-palms..may be seen in the greenhouses of botanic gardens.
2011 B. Hauser New Kids iii. 197 In the Botanic Garden new buds sprouted on the branches of cherry blossom trees.
botanic medicine n. now chiefly historical herbal medicine; an example of this; = botanical medicine n. at botanical adj. and n. Compounds.
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1771 Scots Mag. Feb. 75/2 Dioscorides, the father of Botanic Medicine, commends the herb plainly enough for this use.
1830 E. Smith Bot. Physician p. iv Are botanic medicines so intrinsically inefficient, or so deservedly so unpopular, that they should forever be condemned to insignificance?
1899 Med. Brief 27 214/2 When Samuel Thomson began curing the sick with steam and simple botanic medicines there was a rush made to the legislative halls and laws passed to suppress ‘botanic quacks’, as they were called.
1910 J. P. Dunn Greater Indianapolis xli. 546/2 On July 9, Morrison & Tomlinson, the regular druggists, advertised a stock of botanic medicines.
1961 Mich. Alumnus Q. Rev. 25 Feb. 83/2 Botanic medicine would also be forced to share the field of reform with allopaths, homeopaths, and a variety of other groups.
2013 J. S. Haller Med. Protestants 53 [It] became, next to Thomson's New Guide to Health, the most popular textbook on botanic medicine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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