Botanical vs Flowery - What's the difference?
botanical | flowery |
Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
Something derived from a , especially herbal, source
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, passage=But where vodka stays neutral, gin is infused with botanicals — a witch’s pantry of roots, berries, herbs, dried fruits and spices — dominated by the piney, breezy aroma of juniper berries. }}
(not comparable) Pertaining to flowers.
Decorated with flowers.
Of a speech or piece of writing: too complicated; elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; bombastic; verbose.
As adjectives the difference between botanical and flowery
is that botanical is of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition while flowery is (not comparable) pertaining to flowers.As a noun botanical
is something derived from a , especially herbal, source.botanical
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* botanicallyNoun
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