BOTANICAL in a Sentence

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For BOTANICAL, below is one of 9 sentences:
A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOTANICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
botanical
 n.  a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves)
 a.  of or relating to plants or botany
Classic Sentence:
1  Children, young men, young women, some carrying hampers, others butterfly nets, others spy-glasses, others tin botanical cases arrive.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  A lawn and garden and an infant avenue, all ruled straight like a botanical account-book.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
3  A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
4  It was very little, but enough to make him appear to her a Porson or Bentley, and to put him at his ease with botanical nomenclature.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
5  Planting led her to botanizing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence:
1  The area is of great botanical interest.
2  There is a botanical garden in Paris.
3  Several new botanical species have been discovered in the last year.
4  Although the pumpkin is botanically classified as a fruit, it is widely regarded as a vegetable.