Brewer's: Botany

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

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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