{ } a. [ Cf. F. botanique. See Botany. ] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Bo*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. --
Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots. [1913 Webster]

v. to collect and study plants.
Syn. -- botanize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. botaniste. ] One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Botanized p. pr. & vb. n. Botanizing ] [ Cf. F. botaniser. ] To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To explore for botanical purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who botanizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A botanist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Botany + -logy: cf. F. botanologie. ] The science of botany. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Botany + -mancy: cf. F. botanomantie. ] An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Botanies [ F. botanique, a. & n., fr. Gr. &unr_; botanic, fr. &unr_; herb, plant, fr. &unr_; to feed, graze. ] 1. The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book which treats of the science of botany. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Botany is divided into various departments; as,
Structural Botany, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants;
Physiological Botany, the study of their functions and life; and
Systematic Botany, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Botany Bay kino (Med.), an astringent, reddish substance consisting of the inspissated juice of several Australian species of Eucalyptus. --
Botany Bay resin (Med.), a resin of reddish yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrhæa, esp. the grass tree (Xanthorrhæa hastilis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. bottarga, bottarica; or Sp. botarga; a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches: cf. F. boutargue. ] A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cabotage, fr. caboter to sail along the coast; cf. Sp. cabo cape. ] (Naut.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One versed in paleobotany. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Paleo- + botany. ] That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. (a) Scamped work. (b) Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

2. any surreptitious destruction of property or obstruction of activity by persons not known to be hostile; -- in war, such actions carried out behind enemy lines by agents or local sympathisers of the hostile power. [ PJC ]