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# botanical

«botanical» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with plants or with botany, the science of plants** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (botanical)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Botanical means to do with plants or with botany, the science of plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#m1)

2) Botanical means made from plants, as in botanical oils or medicines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons a botanical garden (botanic garden) is a garden where plants from around the world are grown, labelled and studied, such as Kew Gardens in London. Botanical drawings are careful, detailed pictures of plants. Every plant has a botanical (scientific) name in Latin, such as Bellis perennis for the daisy. Phrases: botanical garden, botanical name, botanical illustration.

### examples

- We visited the botanical garden and saw a giant water lily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#x1)
- The botanical name for the sunflower is Helianthus annuus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#x2)
- She made a botanical drawing of a dandelion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#x3)
- The botanical gardens in Sydney are next to the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#x4)
- Scientists collect botanical samples from the rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#x5)
- This shampoo is made with botanical oils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#x6)
- Kew Gardens is a famous botanical garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#x7)
- I will tell you what to do, and the botanical professor, who lives close by here, will be so surprised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/#x8)

### note

Related: botany (the science), botanist (a plant scientist). «Botanic garden» and «botanical garden» mean the same.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «botanical» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/botanical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.