🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

botánico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: botánico

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Botanical/bəˈtæn.ɪ.kəl/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El jardín botánico tiene miles de especies de plantas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to plants or botany.

    "She studies botanical illustrations from the 18th century."
As noun
  1. 1

    A substance obtained from a plant, used in medicine, cosmetics, or cooking.

    "The gin is infused with various natural botanicals."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek botanikos, relating to herbs, from botanē (plant, grass), ultimately from boskein (to graze). It entered European languages in the 17th century to describe scientific studies and classifications relating to the plant kingdom.

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