| 单词 | economic botany |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseconomic botany b. Of a subject or discipline: studied from a practical, material, commercial, or utilitarian standpoint, as economic botany, economic geography, etc. Cf. economical adj. 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [adjective] > practically useful practical1642 economic1839 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall 461 (heading) Economic geology, under the Department for Woods and Public Works. 1853 T. C. Archer (title) Popular Economic Botany; or, Description of the botanical and commercial characters of the principal articles of vegetable origin, used for food, clothing, tanning, dyeing, building, medicine, perfumery, etc. 1861 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 22 Mar. 295 (heading) The Economic History of Paraffine. 1873 Amer. Naturalist 7 544 A description of it will not be out of place in a report on economic entomology, as some members of the group to which it belongs are known to be destructive. 1914 J. McFarlane Econ. Geogr. 1 Economic Geography may be defined as the study of the influence exerted upon the economic activities of man by his physical environment. 1959 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Apr. 52/2 Economic Forestry..is directed mainly towards marketing and utilization of forest products. 1994 Denver Post 8 Feb. c4/2 A two-year contract with the Bureau of Economic Geology..for petrophysical analysis for two gas fields. 2004 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News Summer 3/1 Exploitation saw botanic gardens and economic botany as central to the manipulation of the rest of the world by the Great Nations of Europe. < as lemmas |
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