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botanic garden

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noun

  1. a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Last year, the botanic garden installed bioacoustics monitors on trees to record pollinating insects' population by listening to the sound of their buzz.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

Another helpful resource has been regular visits to the California Botanic Garden in Claremont, the state’s largest botanic garden devoted entirely to native plants.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2024

But when Baby and colleagues teased out the contents of the nectars of N. khasiana and several other pitcher plants growing in their institute’s botanic garden, they found something unexpected.

From Science Magazine Nov. 29, 2023

But Roddick won’t forget the trees at the botanic garden — old friends by now — and what they have taught him.

From Seattle Times Aug. 1, 2022

It feels just like the inside of the greenhouse at the botanic garden.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

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