botanical

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English botany

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ic

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

Middle English -ical

English -ical

English botanical

From botany + -ical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈtænɪkəl/

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• Rhymes: -ænɪkəl

Adjective

botanical (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants.

   a botanical system

   a botanical textbook

2. (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to plants; vegetable in the broad sense.

Derived terms

• archaeobotanical
• archeobotanical
• botanical garden
• botanically
• botanical name
• ecobotanical
• ethnobotanical
• geobotanical
• macrobotanical
• medicobotanical
• microbotanical
• nonbotanical
• palaeobotanical
• paleobotanical
• unbotanical
• zoobotanical

Translations

Of or pertaining to botany

• Armenian: բուսաբանական (hy) (busabanakan)
• Belarusian: батані́чны m (bataníčny)
• Catalan: botànic (ca)
• Czech: botanický (cs)
• Danish: botanisk (da)
• Dutch: botanisch (nl)
• Faroese: plantufrøðiligur
• Finnish: kasvitieteellinen (fi)
• French: botanique (fr)
• Galician: botánico (gl)
• German: botanisch (de)
• Greek: βοτανικός (el) (votanikós)
• Italian: botanico (it)
• Kazakh: ботаникалық (botanikalyq)
• Latvian: botānisks
• Māori: huaota
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: etzapotl

• Occitan: botanic
• Polish: botaniczny (pl)
• Portuguese: botânico (pt)
• Romanian: botanic (ro)
• Russian: ботани́ческий (ru) (botaníčeskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: luibheach
• Slovak: botanický
• Spanish: botánico (es)
• Swedish: botanisk (sv), växt- (non-academic)
• Tagalog: dalubhalmanin
• Volapük: planavik (vo)
• Walloon: botanike (wa)

Noun

botanical (plural botanicals)

1. (cosmetics, cooking, medicine) Something derived from a botanical, especially herbal, source.
   • 2007 May 2, Eric Asimov, “No, Really, It Was Tough: 4 People, 80 Martinis”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But where vodka stays neutral, gin is infused with botanicals — a witch’s pantry of roots, berries, herbs, dried fruits and spices — dominated by the piney, breezy aroma of juniper berries.

Anagrams

• catabolin, cobaltian