Tinkering with time-tested arrangements turns plants into botanical slackers.
Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too - Issue 90: Something Green|Anne Biklé & David R. Montgomery|September 23, 2020|Nautilus
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.
Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too - Issue 90: Something Green|Anne Biklé & David R. Montgomery|September 23, 2020|Nautilus
Tinkering with these time-tested and co-evolved arrangements, however, can turn plants into botanical slackers.
Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too - Issue 90: Something Green|Anne Biklé & David R. Montgomery|September 23, 2020|Nautilus
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.
Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too - Issue 90: Something Green|Anne Biklé & David R. Montgomery|September 23, 2020|Nautilus
In his twenties, he began to study art and music in Simpson College, and gained notice for his drawings of botanical experiments.
My botanical knowledge extends to about thirty of the commonest plants.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various
Dr. Baileys position in American horticultural literature is unique in that he represents the botanical side of horticulture.
The Grapes of New York|U. P. Hedrick
The botanical gentlemen landed early; and I followed them to make the usual observations for the survey.
A Voyage to Terra Australis|Matthew Flinders
British Dictionary definitions for botanical
botanical
botanic
/ (ˌbəˈtænɪkəl) /
adjective
of or relating to botany or plants
noun
any drug or pesticide that is made from parts of a plant
Derived forms of botanical
botanically, adverb
Word Origin for botanical
C17: from Medieval Latin botanicus, from Greek botanikos relating to plants, from botanē plant, pasture, from boskein to feed; perhaps related to Latin bōs ox, cow