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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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