adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a botanical manner; in relation to botany; according to the principles or technical language of botany.

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1757.  Da Costa, in Phil. Trans., L. 229, note. Dr. Scheuchzer has arranged the fossile plants botanically.

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1793.  W. Curtis, Bot. Mag., VI. 215. In its improved, or to speak more botanically, in its monstrous state.

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1848.  C. A. Johns, Week at Lizard, 291. It is botanically distinguished from the other … Heaths, by its anthers.

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1870.  Yeats, Nat. Hist. Comm., 102. Botanically, this is the region of palms.

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