| 单词 |
botanic |
| 释义 |
botanic, a. and n.|bəʊˈtænɪk|
[ad. med.L. botanicus, a. Gr. βοτανικός, f. βοτάν-η plant: see -ic; perh. the immediate source is F. botanique, which occurs in Cotgrave, 1611.]
A. adj. Pertaining to the science or study of plants, to botany. (Now mostly superseded by botanical, exc. in names of institutions founded many years ago, as ‘The Royal Botanic Society’, ‘The Botanic Gardens’.)
1656Parkinson in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 84 note, Discovered in a botanic excursion by J. Tradescant. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 149 Our very Learned Botanic Professor. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 326 That Ancient Botanick Book mentioned by Galen. 1678Phillips, Botanical or Botanic, belonging to Herbs or Plants. 1736Thomson Liberty ii. 140 Where..Hymettus spread..to botanick hand the stores of health. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 21 He probably engraved the botanic figures for Lobel's Observations. 1842Tennyson Amphion x, They read Botanic Treatises, And Works on Gardening thro' there.
B. n.
†1. One skilled in plants, a botanist. Obs.
1657W. Coles Adam in Eden To Rdr., The Botanick is as commonly puzzled as satisfied. 1676Worlidge Bees (1691) 38 A tree esteemed..by our modern Botanicks.
†2. Chiefly in pl. botanics. [Cf. physics, mathematics.] The science of plants; = botany. Obs.
1698Phil. Trans. XX. 463 Such as are advanced in the Knowledge of Botanicks. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 182 He had no skill in botanicks. 1758Monthly Rev. 592 Supereminent skill in botanics. |
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