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botanical garden
noun
- a garden for the exhibition and scientific study of collected, growing plants, usually in association with greenhouses, herbariums, laboratories, etc.
Word History and Origins
Origin of botanical garden1
Example Sentences
He was wandering a botanical garden as a young man when, among the orchids, cacti, and acres of vegetables, he stumbled on a room full of the diminutive and ancient trees.
He maintains a private botanical garden in Penang with the area’s largest collection of Malaysian palms and gingers.
If you want to be certain you’ll see butterflies, there are a variety of living exhibits throughout the United States, often associated with museums, zoos or botanical gardens.
I’ll be on the phone with a botanical garden about flowers, or a whale expert to get the whale emoji right, or a cardiovascular surgeon so we have the anatomy of the heart down.
The government agency oversees around 5 million hectares of national parks and botanical gardens.
We saw the botanical garden so much praised by Humboldt; but it is in sad disorder, having been for some time entirely neglected.
The botanical garden and hot-house are on a large scale, and exhibit a favorable specimen of the present state of horticulture.
This was pointed out to us by a labourer as the spot at which the Emperor alights and reposes when he visits the Botanical Garden.
There is also annexed to the Museum a small botanical garden.
Outside of his botanical garden an American species of Evening Primrose had run wild.
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