| 单词 | botanical garden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbotanical garden 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. < as lemmas |
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