botanical garden

noun

1. a garden for the exhibition and scientific study of collected, growing plants, usually in association with greenhouses, herbariums, laboratories, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of botanical garden¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

He was wandering a botanical garden as a young man when, among the orchids, cacti, and acres of vegetables, he stumbled on a room full of the diminutive and ancient trees.

From MIT Technology Review

He maintains a private botanical garden in Penang with the area’s largest collection of Malaysian palms and gingers.

From MIT Technology Review

If you want to be certain you’ll see butterflies, there are a variety of living exhibits throughout the United States, often associated with museums, zoos or botanical gardens.

From Washington Post

I’ll be on the phone with a botanical garden about flowers, or a whale expert to get the whale emoji right, or a cardiovascular surgeon so we have the anatomy of the heart down.

From MIT Technology Review

The government agency oversees around 5 million hectares of national parks and botanical gardens.

From Quartz

We saw the botanical garden so much praised by Humboldt; but it is in sad disorder, having been for some time entirely neglected.

From Project Gutenberg

The botanical garden and hot-house are on a large scale, and exhibit a favorable specimen of the present state of horticulture.

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This was pointed out to us by a labourer as the spot at which the Emperor alights and reposes when he visits the Botanical Garden.

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There is also annexed to the Museum a small botanical garden.

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Outside of his botanical garden an American species of Evening Primrose had run wild.

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