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botanical

[buh-tan-i-kuhl] / bəˈtæn ɪ kəl /
ADJECTIVE
relating to plants
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"The waggle dance is often presented as a one-way information transfer," said Ken Tan, the senior author of the study and a researcher at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

And should those monsoon clouds descend while you’re roaming the lush banana groves of Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden, I promise you won’t mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Grant recipients include the New York Botanical Garden for plant identification and the University of Leeds for food waste conversion.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

The first U.S. corpse flower bloom occurred in 1937 at the New York Botanical Garden.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025

The mushroom expert at the Botanical Gardens told me that.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George



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