The Devil's Dictionary: Botany

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
BORE
BOTTLE-NOSED

BOTANY

-n.

The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling.

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