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- botanical adjective [not gradable]. › ​relating to ​plants or the ​scientific ​study of ​plants: a botanical ​garden botanical ​specimens. (Definition of botanical from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press). See all translations.
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Has Noah's Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop? “There’s a tremendous amount of solid evidence that the structure found on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey is the legendary Ark of Noah,” said Aalten.
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- Taxonomy is the science of describing classifying and naming organisms. Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word finds its roots in the Greek τάξις, taxis (meaning 'order', 'arrangement') and νόμος, nomos ('law' or 'science').
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Herbal medicine Herbal medicine -- also called botanical medicine or phytomedicine -- refers to using a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or flowers for medicinal purposes.ecently, the World Health Organization estimated that 80% of people worldwide rely on herbal medicines for some part of their primary health care. In Germany, about 600 - 700 plant based medicines are available and are prescribed by some 70% of German physicians.
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Welcome to Botanary, the Botanical Dictionary Enter your search keyword below: 1. A blended word, derived from the phrase botanical dictionary. 2. A reference containing an alphabetical list of 21,261 botanical words, with information given for each word, usually including the etymology (i.e., history and/or origin) and pronunciation. Almost 250 years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl von Linn published Species Plantarum and binomial nomenclature was born.
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- A botanical drug product is intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans. A botanical drug product consists of vegetable materials, which may include plant materials, algae, macroscopic fungi, or combinations thereof.
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natural Medical Definition of natural. 1  1: having, constituting, or relating to a classification based on features existing in nature. 2  2: of or relating to nature as an object of study and research. 3  3: relating to or being natural food.
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Taxonomy (biology) Taxonomy (biology) Taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis), meaning 'arrangement', and -νομία (-nomia), meaning 'method') is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.
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Herbal medicine What is herbal medicine? Herbal medicine, also called botanical medicine or phytomedicine, refers to using a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or flowers for medicinal purposes. Herbalism has a long tradition of use outside conventional medicine. It is becoming more mainstream as improvements in analysis and quality control, along with advances in clinical research, show the value of herbal medicine in treating and preventing disease.
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- Full Definition of CITRUS. : any of a group of often thorny trees and shrubs (Citrus and related genera) of the rue family grown in warm regions for their edible fruit (as the orange or lemon) with firm usually thick rind and pulpy flesh; also: the fruit.— cit·rusy \ˈsi-trə-sē\ adjective.. capitalized: a genus of often thorny trees and shrubs of the rue family (Rutaceae) grown in warm regions for their edible fruit (as the orange, lemon, lime, or mandarin) with firm usually thick rind and pulpy flesh. 2. plural citruses or citrus: any plant or fruit of the genus Citrus or a related genus.
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Tree Although tree is a term of common parlance, there is no universally recognised precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language. In its broadest sense, a tree is any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which supports the photosynthetic leaves or branches at some distance above the ground.
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- Comic Juxtaposition: linking together with no commentary items which normally do not go together; Pope’s line in Rape of the Lock : “Puffs, patches, bibles, and billet-doux”10. Mock Epic/Mock Heroic: Using elevated diction and devices from the epic or the heroic to deal with low or trivial subjects. 11.
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Taxonomy Taxonomy is, therefore, the methodology and principles of systematic botany and zoology and sets up arrangements of the kinds of plants and animals in hierarchies of superior and subordinate groups. Popularly, classifications of living organisms arise according to need and are often superficial. Anglo-Saxon terms such as worm and fish have been used to refer, respectively, to any creeping thing—snake, earthworm, intestinal parasite, or dragon—and to any swimming or aquatic thing.
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- 1. A blended word, derived from the phrase botanical dictionary. 2. A reference containing an alphabetical list of 21,261 botanical words, with information given for each word, usually including the etymology (i.e., history and/or origin) and pronunciation.
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botany (ˈbɒtənɪ) n, pl -nies. 1. (Botany) the study of plants, including their classification, structure, physiology, ecology, and economic importance. 2. (Botany) the plant life of a particular region or time. 3. (Botany) the biological characteristics of a particular group of plants.
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Botany Botany, also called plant science (s) or plant biology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specializes in this field of study.The term botany comes from the Ancient Greek word βοτάνη (botanē) meaning  pasture , grass, or  fodder ; βοτάνη is in turn derived from βόσκειν (boskein), to feed or to graze.n the 19th and 20th centuries, new techniques were developed for the study of plants, including methods of optical microscopy and live cell imaging, electron microscopy, analysis of chromosome number, plant chemistry and the structure and function of enzymes and other proteins.
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INSTALLATION botanical garden - a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition. arboretum. facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; the assembly plant is an enormous facility.
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- Medical Definition of CITRUS. 1. capitalized: a genus of often thorny trees and shrubs of the rue family (Rutaceae) grown in warm regions for their edible fruit (as the orange, lemon, lime, or mandarin) with firm usually thick rind and pulpy flesh.
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Taxonomy 1 Taxonomy (biology) , a branch of science that encompasses the description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of organisms. 2  Alpha taxonomy, the description and basic classification of new species, subspecies, and other taxa. 3  Linnaean taxonomy meaning either of: Taxonomy (general) , the practice and science of classification of things or concepts, including the principles that underlie such classification.
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Plant Divisions: Flowering Plants The botanical definition of a fruit is a matured ovary (the ovary is the female part of the flower that contains the ovules which become the seeds once fertilised), this includes peppers, tomatoes, aubergines, nuts, peas, wheat grains, but not apples or rhubarb.here is another meaning for the word fruit, which is culinary and refers to a sweet part of a plant that is eaten, this is the more familiar term and includes rhubarb and apples, but not tomatoes and nuts, etc.
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Definition of 'herbarium' Definition of 'herbarium'. Word Frequency. herbarium (hɜːˈbɛərɪəm ) noun plural -iums or -ia (-ɪə) 1. a collection of dried plants that are mounted and classified systematically. 2. a building, room, etc, in which such a collection is kept.
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- Taxonomy (which literally means arrangement law) is the science of classifying organisms to construct internationally-shared classification systems with each organism placed into more and more inclusive groupings. Think about how a grocery store is organized.
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botanicals botanicals. Fiber, juice, oil, pulp, tissue, or other components derived from plants and used in cosmetics, food supplements, personal care products, or pharmaceuticals.
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botany (ˈbɒt n i) n., pl. -nies. 1. the science of plants; the branch of biology that deals with plant life. 2. the plant life of a region. 3. the biological characteristics of a plant or plant group.
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botanical Definition of botanical. : a plant part or extract used especially in skin and hair care products; also : a medicinal preparation derived from a plant.
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What is Botany? Botany is the scientific study of plants. Plants, to most people, means a wide range of living organisms from the smallest bacteria to the largest living things - the giant sequoia trees. By this definition plants include: algae, fungi, lichens, mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants.