BOTANICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does botanical mean? 

• BOTANICAL (noun)
  The noun BOTANICAL has 1 sense:

1. a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves)

  Familiarity information: BOTANICAL used as a noun is very rare.

• BOTANICAL (adjective)
  The adjective BOTANICAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to plants or botany

  Familiarity information: BOTANICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTANICAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("botanical" is a kind of...):

drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)

• BOTANICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to plants or botany

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

botanic; botanical

Context example:

botanical garden

Pertainym:

botany (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Derivation:

botany (the branch of biology that studies plants)

 Context examples 

A proprietary botanical formulation derived from a traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) plant with hematopoietic activity.

(Plant-Derived Hematopoiesis Enhancer PG2, NCI Thesaurus)

The root is shaped like a foot, half human, half goatlike; hence the fanciful name given by a botanical missionary.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In botanical nomenclature, a rank below that of variety.

(Forma, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon rinsing with botanical extracts rinse IZN-6N4 in the oral cavity, this agent may prevent inflammation of the mucosal membranes and may decrease chemotherapy- and/or radiation-induced oral mucositis.

(Botanical Extracts Rinse IZN-6N4, NCI Thesaurus)

The result is the largest dataset on botanical biodiversity ever created.

(Nearly 40% of plant species are very rare, and vulnerable to climate change, National Science Foundation)

These include, but is not limited to, botanicals, animal-derived extracts, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids, proteins, prebiotics and probiotics (live bacteria (and sometimes yeasts) found in foods such as yogurt or in dietary supplements), whole diets, and functional foods.

(Biologically Based Practices, NCI Thesaurus)

Also, how the Doctor's cogitating manner was attributable to his being always engaged in looking out for Greek roots; which, in my innocence and ignorance, I supposed to be a botanical furor on the Doctor's part, especially as he always looked at the ground when he walked about, until I understood that they were roots of words, with a view to a new Dictionary which he had in contemplation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An oral rinse containing 1% of botanical extracts with potential anti-inflammatory and antimucositis activity.

(Botanical Extracts Rinse IZN-6N4, NCI Thesaurus)

My first days in this village were devoted to a series of walks in which in the intervals of my botanical researches I made a reconnaissance of all the large houses and an examination of the family history of the occupants.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)