botanical

Effleurage is an age-old perfumers’ technique used to extract botanicals from flowers by pressing the fresh petals into a layer of vege­table fat.

Tinkering with these time-tested and co-evolved arrangements, however, can turn plants into botanical slackers.

An awful lot of crops grown in the developed world eat a botanical version of this diet—main courses of conventional fertilizers with pesticide sides.

So long as a supply of organic matter replenishes the soil, it powers the cycle of eating, pooping, and dying among soil life that supports the entire botanical world.

Tinkering with time-tested arrangements turns plants into botanical slackers.

In his twenties, he began to study art and music in Simpson College, and gained notice for his drawings of botanical experiments.

This would be their home base while they spent around 10 days trekking through the jungle in search of the perfect new botanical.

She later confessed to poring over botanical volumes in search of suitable poisons and scouring the woods for lethal mushrooms.

One of their regular haunts was the Botanical Gardens, just outside Hamilton.

The G-20 leaders had a working dinner at the Pittsburgh Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Thursday night.

Early on the following morning, I accompanied Count Berchthold to the 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.

Most of the books are either editions of the classics or theological works, but there are a few on medical and botanical subjects.

Honey took the place of sugar on the table and in cooking, for the Romans had only a botanical knowledge of the sugar cane.

Suppose we go first to the market, and then in a roundabout way to the Botanical Gardens.