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/ bəˈtæn·ɪ·kəl / ( also botanic , us / bəˈtæn·ɪk / ) relating to plants or the scientific study of plants: a botanical garden

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The use of botanicals can offer tissue support, the prevention of necrosis of liver cells, provide alternative pathways of metabolism to circumvent inflammation and boost the immune system.

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A traditional copper pot still is used, which maximizes the transfer of flavour from the botanicals to the spirit.

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The company continues to draw on its rich heritage and knowledge of plants and botanicals whilst embracing new discoveries.

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Botanicals include extracts of leaves, or a mulch of the leaves themselves.

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Botanicals, so-called natural pesticides, are used by some farmers in an attempt to control rice pests.

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She is an expert in propagation and has taught and cloned botanicals.

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Aerial photographic mosaics and other botanical maps have been made of the blocks to record their early conditions and will be repeated ultimately.

Integral to this new landscape was its incorporation of botany and the invention of a botanical aesthetics.

Botanical gardening/horticulture, on the other hand, took information and made it an integral part of the creation of a material beauty.

Libraries, observatories, and botanical gardens offer another sort of challenge to the systematizer.

If determining and then meeting a plant's needs is so basic to known botanical principles, why were the cases so readily misunderstood?

Lower blood pressure is a side effect of certain botanicals, which can also interact with hypotensive medications.

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As the middle-class and suburban populations expanded, they assimilated aspects of gardening and botanical traditions that predated them.

The majority of all the accessions classified as botanical varieties clustered together.

Plant remains, often referred to as macro botanicals, provide a variety of information ranging from diet to medicine to textile production.

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in Chinese (Traditional) 植物(學)的, 和植物(學)有關的, 植物性藥材… in Chinese (Simplified) 植物(学)的, 和植物(学)有关的, 植物性药材… in Spanish botánico, ingrediente botánico… in Portuguese in more languages in Japanese in Turkish in Catalan in Indonesian in Vietnamese in Swedish in Norwegian in Ukrainian in Italian botanik, bitki bilimsel… mengenai tumbuhan… เกี่ยวกับพืช… (thuộc) thực vật học… botaniczny… ботанічний… Need a translator?

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