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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 More on Botany from Infoplease:
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