botanologyt (botanoloji)

[F. bota no logie, 636 they have become putrid: much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to thirst. The great white Ru ian sturgeon, Acipenser huso, is one of the principal sources of botargo. The best botargo comes from Tunis, is dry and reddish, and is eaten with olive-oil and lemon-juice. Also bottargo. We staid talking and singing and drinking great draughts of claret, and eating botargo and bread and butter, till twelve at night, it being moonshine. Pepys, Diary, I. 191. Botaurinæ (bō-ta-rī'në), n. pl. [NL., Botaurinæ also differ from the other Ardeidæ , being soli- tary, nesting on the ground, and laying eggs unlike those of true herons. See cut under bittern . Botaurus (bō-ta'rus), n. [NL., irreg. bos , an ox, + taurus , a bull; suggested by the old form (ME. but or , OF. but or , bot or ) of bittern1 , q. v.] The typical genus of the subfamily Bo- taurina . See bittern1 . botch1+ (boch), n. [ botche , bocche , boche , a botch, sore, var. of boce , a botch, swell- ing, > mod. F. bo e , E. bo 1 : see bo 1 . Cf. OD. butse , a boil, swelling, butsen , D. botsen , strike, beat, akin to OHG. bōzan = E. beat1 . Cf. botch2.] A swelling on the skin; a large ulcer- ous affection; a boil. Yet who more foul, disrobed of attire? Pearl'd with the botch as children burnt with fire. Middle ton, Micro-Cynicon, i. 3. Botches and blains must all his flesh embo .