botanicaladj.n.

Brit.

/bəˈtanᵻkl/, U.S.

/bəˈtænək(ə)l/

Forms: 1600s botanicall, 1600s– botanical.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin botanicus , -al suffix¹; Greek βοτανικός , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin botanicus or its etymon Hellenistic Greek βοτανικός botanic adj. + -al suffix¹.

A. adj.

1. Of or relating to botany, or the biological characteristics and attributes of the plants with which it is concerned.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > botany > [adjective]

botanical1627

botanic1647

phytological1654

botanomical1656

palaeophytologic1969

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. v. 230 To the perfiting of the Anatomicall and reuiuing of the Botanicall art in this latter age.

1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 29 There is a confusion of names in botanical authours about Brambles, Briars..Dog-thorn, &c.

1768 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 214 When a stranger, from botanical or other curiosity, goes to the top of a Welsh mountain.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1850) xxxviii. 591 Botanical Geography. A comparison of the plants of different regions.

1859 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 7 705/1 After noticing the collection of botanical prints and drawings, the report concludes by pointing out the further service rendered by this garden to horticulture and botany.

1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 382 There are no botanical characters by which such trees can be distinguished.

1952 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles iv. 88 Stoneworts have no roots in the strict botanical sense.

2011 Guardian 30 July (Weekend Suppl.) 51/4 Elephant garlic isn't just a bigger version of true garlic, Allium sativum, but..a bulbing variety of leek (although its true botanical status is debated).

2. Of a substance or (typically) a mixture of substances: consisting of or derived from a plant or plants, or their parts or constituents, and used esp. for cosmetic or medicinal purposes.

ΚΠ

1783 Physical Prudence 38 Arabian spice, with other precious balsams, are stored, and every other botanical ingredient.

1799 Oracle & Daily Advertiser 13 July A most sovereign botanical remedy for all disorders of the lungs, coughs, consumptive and asthmatic complaints, foulness of breath, and fresh-contracted colds.

1844 S. W. Tilke Pract. Refl. Nature & Treatm. Dis. (ed. 5) 332 (heading) Simple botanical extracts for various complaints.

1885 Quiver Mar. sig. G/2 (advt.) Sozodont,..a botanical preparation of wondrous efficacy in Preserving and Beautifying the Teeth.

1926 Amer. Mercury July 330/2 During the craze for the development of botanical drugs our pharmacopeia became almost a replica of the herbals of Seventeenth..Century Europe.

1971 R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) Gloss. 670 Nicotine, a botanical insecticide derived from leaves and stems of the tobacco plant.

2002 Massage & Bodywork Feb. 125/1 This treatment incorporates a buttermilk, sourwood honey and fragrant botanical bath with a brown sugar scrub.

B. n.

A plant, part of a plant, or a plant extract that is used in medicinal, therapeutic, or cosmetic products, as a food supplement, or in the flavouring of alcoholic beverages, esp. gin; a drug or medicinal preparation obtained from a plant, a herbal medicine. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun]

botanical1836

1836 Manch. Guardian 3 Sept. It is prepared from Rio Negro Sarsaparilla and some other exotic botanicals.

1872 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 3 341/2 My attention was first called to the structure of pharmaceutical botanicals by a ‘mounter's slide’ of S. syphilitica given me years since by a west country friend.

1896 Pharmaceut. Era 31 Dec. 923/1 On the first floor of No. 305 West Pratt street are the shipping and receiving departments, and in the rear of them the storeroom for the botanicals and herbs.

1924 Times 29 July p. vii, (advt.) Crude drugs & American botanicals. Roots, herbs, leaves, barks, etc.

1950 Life 7 Aug. 56 (advt.) Only one gin—Hiram Walker's Gin—is famous for imported botanicals.

1992 Town & Country Jan. 39/3 Sea Mud Mineral Soak fortifies the bath with sea botanicals, minerals and emollients to revitalize and condition the skin.

2001 A. Chiu et al. in C.-T. Ho & Q. Y. Zheng Quality Managem. Neutraceuticals ii. 12 The efficacy of botanicals is often based on anecdotal data and a long history of use, which is not considered satisfactory for pharmaceutical drugs.

Compounds

botanical garden n. [compare earlier botanic garden n. at botanic adj. and n. Compounds] a garden in which plants are cultivated for scientific research, conservation, and display to the public; (also in plural in same sense). Also with capital initials in the names of particular institutions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > public gardens

garden1612

spring garden1612

botanic garden1662

villaa1684

botanical garden1704

1704 tr. G. Baglivi Pract. Physick i. vii. 51 Those things which have a closer coherence with Nature, namely Experiments, Observations, Dissections of Dead Bodies, Botanical Gardens [L. hortos simplicium], and Chymical furnaces.

1793 W. Smith Silent Submission to Will of God 21 A man [sc. Mr. Aiton] the best qualified, and most proper to arrange and form a botanical garden at Kew.

1872 Inland Monthly June 157/2 The Missouri Botanical Garden was founded in 1858, by Henry Shaw, Esq., a wealthy citizen of St. Louis.

1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 125 Kew Gardens. Britain's largest botanical gardens with huge houses of tropical and sub-tropical plants, rolling gardens with rhododendrons, and every sort of tree ever grown.

2011 J. Dalton Inverted Forest xiv. 249 On Fridays he went by bus..to the botanical garden to make pencil sketches of the acclaimed orchid collection.

botanical medicine n. [compare earlier botanic medicine n. at botanic adj. and n. Compounds] the use of specific plants or plant-based medicines for healing purposes; = herbal medicine n. 1; a particular form of this, esp. Thomsonian medicine; (also as a count noun) a drug or medicinal preparation obtained from a plant, a herbal medicine.

ΚΠ

1801 J. Aikin et al. Gen. Biogr. II. 336/1 The names [of the plants], Latin, Greek, and German, with accounts of their uses, and various other matter relative to botanical medicine.

1818 S. F. Gray Suppl. Pharmacopœias (heading) 369 Indigenous Botanical Medicine... In this list the native plants of the British islands, which are known to possess any medical virtues, are arranged.

1897 Scribner's Mag. Dec. (advt.) 126 The remedial agents combined in its preparation comprise the most efficacious extracts of herbs, barks, roots and seeds, known to botanical medicine.

1989 Atlantic Oct. 78/1 The basic naturopathic repertoire includes..Oriental botanical medicines (to support the body's natural ability to heal itself).

2015 Oakville Beaver (Nexis) 21 Apr. 1 We utilize a host of therapies such as acupuncture, botanical medicine, nutrition, diet and lifestyle counseling..to support your body as it begins to heal and recover.

botanical name n. the name of a species or genus of plant in scientific or post-classical Latin, or a name derived from this; (occasionally also) an English plant name used chiefly by botanists.

ΚΠ

1733 P. Shaw in tr. F. Bacon Philos. Wks. III. 62 (note) What is the Botanical Name and Nature of this Flower?

1813 T. Jefferson Let. 8 Dec. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) VII. 393 We call it the snow-berry bush, no botanical name being yet given to it.

1897 Meehan’s Monthly Apr. 61/1 ‘Syphilitic Lobelia’..is the botanical name translated.

1962 E. Gibbons Stalking Wild Asparagus (1970) 21 This common aquatic plant is also known as Arrowleaf or Duck Potatoes. The botanical name of the genus is Sagittaria.

2011 R. Fortey Survivors vi. 158 The plant is called a liverwort... The old botanical name of hepatics reflects the same etymology.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	botanical
释义	botanicaladj.n. Brit. /bəˈtanᵻkl/, U.S. /bəˈtænək(ə)l/ Forms: 1600s botanicall, 1600s– botanical. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin botanicus , -al suffix¹; Greek βοτανικός , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < post-classical Latin botanicus or its etymon Hellenistic Greek βοτανικός botanic adj. + -al suffix¹. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to botany, or the biological characteristics and attributes of the plants with which it is concerned. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [adjective] botanical1627 botanic1647 phytological1654 botanomical1656 palaeophytologic1969 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. v. 230 To the perfiting of the Anatomicall and reuiuing of the Botanicall art in this latter age. 1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 29 There is a confusion of names in botanical authours about Brambles, Briars..Dog-thorn, &c. 1768 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 214 When a stranger, from botanical or other curiosity, goes to the top of a Welsh mountain. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1850) xxxviii. 591 Botanical Geography. A comparison of the plants of different regions. 1859 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 7 705/1 After noticing the collection of botanical prints and drawings, the report concludes by pointing out the further service rendered by this garden to horticulture and botany. 1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 382 There are no botanical characters by which such trees can be distinguished. 1952 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles iv. 88 Stoneworts have no roots in the strict botanical sense. 2011 Guardian 30 July (Weekend Suppl.) 51/4 Elephant garlic isn't just a bigger version of true garlic, Allium sativum, but..a bulbing variety of leek (although its true botanical status is debated). 2. Of a substance or (typically) a mixture of substances: consisting of or derived from a plant or plants, or their parts or constituents, and used esp. for cosmetic or medicinal purposes. ΚΠ 1783 Physical Prudence 38 Arabian spice, with other precious balsams, are stored, and every other botanical ingredient. 1799 Oracle & Daily Advertiser 13 July A most sovereign botanical remedy for all disorders of the lungs, coughs, consumptive and asthmatic complaints, foulness of breath, and fresh-contracted colds. 1844 S. W. Tilke Pract. Refl. Nature & Treatm. Dis. (ed. 5) 332 (heading) Simple botanical extracts for various complaints. 1885 Quiver Mar. sig. G/2 (advt.) Sozodont,..a botanical preparation of wondrous efficacy in Preserving and Beautifying the Teeth. 1926 Amer. Mercury July 330/2 During the craze for the development of botanical drugs our pharmacopeia became almost a replica of the herbals of Seventeenth..Century Europe. 1971 R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) Gloss. 670 Nicotine, a botanical insecticide derived from leaves and stems of the tobacco plant. 2002 Massage & Bodywork Feb. 125/1 This treatment incorporates a buttermilk, sourwood honey and fragrant botanical bath with a brown sugar scrub. B. n. A plant, part of a plant, or a plant extract that is used in medicinal, therapeutic, or cosmetic products, as a food supplement, or in the flavouring of alcoholic beverages, esp. gin; a drug or medicinal preparation obtained from a plant, a herbal medicine. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] botanical1836 1836 Manch. Guardian 3 Sept. It is prepared from Rio Negro Sarsaparilla and some other exotic botanicals. 1872 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 3 341/2 My attention was first called to the structure of pharmaceutical botanicals by a ‘mounter's slide’ of S. syphilitica given me years since by a west country friend. 1896 Pharmaceut. Era 31 Dec. 923/1 On the first floor of No. 305 West Pratt street are the shipping and receiving departments, and in the rear of them the storeroom for the botanicals and herbs. 1924 Times 29 July p. vii, (advt.) Crude drugs & American botanicals. Roots, herbs, leaves, barks, etc. 1950 Life 7 Aug. 56 (advt.) Only one gin—Hiram Walker's Gin—is famous for imported botanicals. 1992 Town & Country Jan. 39/3 Sea Mud Mineral Soak fortifies the bath with sea botanicals, minerals and emollients to revitalize and condition the skin. 2001 A. Chiu et al. in C.-T. Ho & Q. Y. Zheng Quality Managem. Neutraceuticals ii. 12 The efficacy of botanicals is often based on anecdotal data and a long history of use, which is not considered satisfactory for pharmaceutical drugs. Compounds botanical garden n. [compare earlier botanic garden n. at botanic adj. and n. Compounds] a garden in which plants are cultivated for scientific research, conservation, and display to the public; (also in plural in same sense). Also with capital initials in the names of particular institutions. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > public gardens garden1612 spring garden1612 botanic garden1662 villaa1684 botanical garden1704 1704 tr. G. Baglivi Pract. Physick i. vii. 51 Those things which have a closer coherence with Nature, namely Experiments, Observations, Dissections of Dead Bodies, Botanical Gardens [L. hortos simplicium], and Chymical furnaces. 1793 W. Smith Silent Submission to Will of God 21 A man [sc. Mr. Aiton] the best qualified, and most proper to arrange and form a botanical garden at Kew. 1872 Inland Monthly June 157/2 The Missouri Botanical Garden was founded in 1858, by Henry Shaw, Esq., a wealthy citizen of St. Louis. 1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 125 Kew Gardens. Britain's largest botanical gardens with huge houses of tropical and sub-tropical plants, rolling gardens with rhododendrons, and every sort of tree ever grown. 2011 J. Dalton Inverted Forest xiv. 249 On Fridays he went by bus..to the botanical garden to make pencil sketches of the acclaimed orchid collection. botanical medicine n. [compare earlier botanic medicine n. at botanic adj. and n. Compounds] the use of specific plants or plant-based medicines for healing purposes; = herbal medicine n. 1; a particular form of this, esp. Thomsonian medicine; (also as a count noun) a drug or medicinal preparation obtained from a plant, a herbal medicine. ΚΠ 1801 J. Aikin et al. Gen. Biogr. II. 336/1 The names [of the plants], Latin, Greek, and German, with accounts of their uses, and various other matter relative to botanical medicine. 1818 S. F. Gray Suppl. Pharmacopœias (heading) 369 Indigenous Botanical Medicine... In this list the native plants of the British islands, which are known to possess any medical virtues, are arranged. 1897 Scribner's Mag. Dec. (advt.) 126 The remedial agents combined in its preparation comprise the most efficacious extracts of herbs, barks, roots and seeds, known to botanical medicine. 1989 Atlantic Oct. 78/1 The basic naturopathic repertoire includes..Oriental botanical medicines (to support the body's natural ability to heal itself). 2015 Oakville Beaver (Nexis) 21 Apr. 1 We utilize a host of therapies such as acupuncture, botanical medicine, nutrition, diet and lifestyle counseling..to support your body as it begins to heal and recover. botanical name n. the name of a species or genus of plant in scientific or post-classical Latin, or a name derived from this; (occasionally also) an English plant name used chiefly by botanists. ΚΠ 1733 P. Shaw in tr. F. Bacon Philos. Wks. III. 62 (note) What is the Botanical Name and Nature of this Flower? 1813 T. Jefferson Let. 8 Dec. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) VII. 393 We call it the snow-berry bush, no botanical name being yet given to it. 1897 Meehan’s Monthly Apr. 61/1 ‘Syphilitic Lobelia’..is the botanical name translated. 1962 E. Gibbons Stalking Wild Asparagus (1970) 21 This common aquatic plant is also known as Arrowleaf or Duck Potatoes. The botanical name of the genus is Sagittaria. 2011 R. Fortey Survivors vi. 158 The plant is called a liverwort... The old botanical name of hepatics reflects the same etymology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1627
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