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Definition of Botany

Bore
Bore
  BOTANY   noun
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.
 

Devil's Dictionarydefinition from:
The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Bottle-nosed
Bottle-nosed
Regular definition:
BOTANY:
n. (in full Botany wool) merino wool, esp. from Australia. [Botany Bay, New S. Wales, named from the variety of its flora]


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