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Botʹany

means a treatise on fodder (Greek, botʹanē, fodder, from boskein, to feed). The science of plants would be “phytolʹogy,” from phyton-logos (plant-treatise).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bos[ei] in lingua
Bosh
Bosky
Bosom Friend (A)
Bosom Sermons
Bosphorus=Ox ford
Boss
Bossum
Bostal
Botanomancy
Botany
Botch
Bother
Bothie System
Botley Assizes
Bottes
Bottle
Bottle-chart
Bottle-holder
Bottle-imps
Bottle-washer (Head)

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