Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Botanic"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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

{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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

botanic
adj : of or relating to plants or botany; "botanical garden" [syn:
{botanical}]


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