a. [f. prec. + -AL.] Concerned with the study or cultivation of plants, pertaining to botany.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, II. 499. The Persian Gallants who destroyed this Monarchy, maintained their Botanicall bravery.
1767. Barrington, in Phil. Trans., LVII. 214. When a stranger, from botanical or other curiosity, goes to the top of a Welsh mountain.
1797. Holcroft, Stolberg’s Trav., III. lxxxvii. (ed. 2), 442. A large botanical garden.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., xxxviii. (1850), 591. Botanical Geography. A comparison of the plants of different regions.
1873. Morley, Rousseau, II. 75. In his botanical expeditions.
