What is meant by botanic garden?
A botanical garden is a controlled and staffed institution for the maintenance of a living collection of plants under scientific management for purposes of education and research, together with such libraries, herbaria, laboratories, and museums as are essential to its particular undertakings.
Why is it called botanical garden?
botanical garden, also called botanic garden, originally, a collection of living plants designed chiefly to illustrate relationships within plant groups.
What botanic means?
variants also botanic. bə-ˈtan-ik. : of or relating to plants or botany. : derived from plants.Dec 16, 2022
What is the meaning of botanic?
/bəˈtæn.ɪk/) involving or relating to plants or the study of plants: a botanical print. botanical/botanic gardens.Dec 14, 2022
Is botanic a real word?
For the adjective meaning of or relating to botany or the cultivation of plants, botanic and botanical are both acceptable, and there is no difference between them, but botanical is more common in 21st-century English. Botanic was more common up to the 20th century but has gradually faded out of use.
What does botanic life mean?
Of or relating to plants or plant life. 2. Of or relating to the science of botany.Mar 27, 2022
Where does the Word botanic come from?
Botanical comes from botanic, which has its root in the Greek word botanikos, "of herbs."