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How to use botanical in a sentence

23 example sentences · adjective, noun

Botanical means of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants. Example: “Plantae, Betulaceae, Helianthemum, Zea mays and Stellaria media subsp. media are botanical names.”

Examples of botanical by meaning

adjectiveOf or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants.

  • a botanical system
  • a botanical textbook

nounSomething derived from a botanical, especially herbal, source.

  • 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.2007 May 2, Eric Asimov, “No, Really, It Was Tough: 4 People, 80 Martinis”, in New York Times

More sentences with botanical

  • Plantae, Betulaceae, Helianthemum, Zea mays and Stellaria media subsp. media are botanical names.From the entry botanical name
  • Stitches include ajouré works, prints with botanical patterns, plain or close stiches with detailed shaping.1998, American Sportswear & Knitting Times - Volume 67, page 17. From the entry ajouré
  • The plants used belonged to botanical families known to have little phytochemical significance.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 87. From the entry phytochemical
  • Hey, dilly, dilly, They thought you were a Lily 'Cause they misclimbed your botanical tree.1981, Marilyn Singer, The Fanatic's Ecstatic Aromatic Guide to Onions, Garlic, Shallots, and Leeks, page 180. From the entry misclimb
  • What could be more cheerful than these flowers never seen before in any botanical guide?1976, “Appliquéd Felt Pillows”, in The Woman’s Day Book of Gifts to Make, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry sofaful
  • We do eco-dying and are working with embedding botanicals in resins, always learning something new to do with herbs.2018, Tina Sams, “About the author”, in Amazon, Amazon, retrieved 01 Oct 2026. From the entry hydrosol
  • Food articles often have botanical illustrations of lesser-eaten greenery like endive and watercress, drawn by artist John Burgoyne.2017, Shawn Chandler Bingham, “Bohemian Groves, Grooves, Gardens, and Guns”, in Shawn Chandler Bingham, Lindsey A. Freeman, editors, The…. From the entry bohemian
  • I tell you it's weirdsville down there, a spaced-out botanical Twilight Zone of creepies, crawlies, eeries, and ghastlies.2013, Robert Silverberg, “A Science-Fiction Garden”, in Reflections and Refractions. From the entry eerie
  • There was a rumour that the rare wolfkin had been sighted in the botanical gardens in the west of the city.2010, Kate Atkinson, Not The End Of The World, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry wolfkin
  • There was a considerable overlap between florilegiums, with their wealth of botanical illustration and exotic collections, and embroiderers’ source books.2006, Twigs Way, “Inspiration and Perspiration: Artists and Needlewomen”, in Virgins, Weeders and Queens: A History of Women in the…. From the entry florilegium
  • Our green lily is a cunjevoi, botanical name Alocasia macrorrhiza.1997, John Griffin, Back Yard: A Gardening Life, page 62. From the entry cunjevoi
  • Theriac—like mithridatum—was an elaborate compound of vipers and botanicals.1995, Isis, No. 86, p. 400. From the entry mithridatum
  • Pommelo has been called by various botanical names.1981, Bhag Singh, Establishment of First Gene Sanctuary in India for Citrus in Garo Hills, Concept, page 67. From the entry pommelo
  • The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress.1958, New York Botanical Garden, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 10, page 169. From the entry illustratress
  • Play is the botanical gardens, the dinner table surrounded by friends and graced with the perfect centerpiece, the soccer field dotted with children running breathlessly.1999, R. Scott Colglazier, “Let’s Go Down to the Garden”, in Touchstones: Spiritual Awakenings in Everyday Life, St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice…. From the entry playplace
  • The new Trust property also includes the interesting small prehistoric stone circle on the nearby brooghs and is also of considerable botanical interest.1970, Manx Museum and National Trust, The Journal of the Manx Museum, volume 7, issues 86-87, page 162. From the entry broogh
  • The kadupul blooms once a year under the cover of night and withers away before dawn, making it the rarest and most exquisite botanical on the planet.2015, Karri Thompson, Ascendancy, →ISBN. From the entry kadupul
  • The following study investigates these questions from two perspectives: first, it considers faunal and botanical evidence from within the emporia themselves as indicators of agrarian production in their hinterlands.2007, Helena Hamerow, “Agrarian Production and the Emporia of Mid Saxon England, ca. AD 650–850”, in Joachim Henning, editor, The Heirs of…. From the entry emporium
  • Such rohe were most often delineated by geographical features such as mountains, rivers and valleys, or by botanical markers such as forests or individually identified trees.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 68. From the entry rohe
  • To the gourd growers and potters reaching America, would not the most obvious candidate in this strange botanical world be the most gourdlike plant, hence the cucurbitas?1977, George F. Carter, “A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture”, in Charles A. Reed, editor, Origins of Agriculture, The…. From the entry cucurbita

Meaning of botanical

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to plants; vegetable in the broad sense.
  3. noun Something derived from a botanical, especially herbal, source.

Full definition of botanical

Questions about botanical in a sentence

How do you use botanical in a sentence?
Botanical is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Plantae, Betulaceae, Helianthemum, Zea mays and Stellaria media subsp. media are botanical names.”
What is a short sentence with botanical?
“a botanical system”
What does botanical mean?
Botanical means of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: botanical (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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