0 involving or relating to plants or the study of plants:
a botanical print
botanical/botanic gardens
Several new botanical species have been discovered in the last year.
1 a plant used as medicine or to give flavour to a drink:
There are over 100 botanicals that can be used in gin.
2 relating to plants or the scientific study of plants:
The use of botanicals can offer tissue support, the prevention of necrosis of liver cells, provide alternative pathways of metabolism to circumvent inflammation and boost the immune system.
A traditional copper pot still is used, which maximizes the transfer of flavour from the botanicals to the spirit.
The company continues to draw on its rich heritage and knowledge of plants and botanicals whilst embracing new discoveries.
Botanicals include extracts of leaves, or a mulch of the leaves themselves.
Botanicals, so-called natural pesticides, are used by some farmers in an attempt to control rice pests.
She is an expert in propagation and has taught and cloned botanicals.
Aerial photographic mosaics and other botanical maps have been made of the blocks to record their early conditions and will be repeated ultimately.
Integral to this new landscape was its incorporation of botany and the invention of a botanical aesthetics.