botanize
verb (used without object)
to study plants or plant life.
botanise
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a variation of
botanize.
Example Sentences
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Sooner or later Science will botanise a bit on your turnip ghosts; and make you look turnips yourselves for having taken any.
From Magic A Fantastic Comedy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
We botanise, we look for nests, we geologise, we study birds through glasses, we garden.
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
All these things were carried by Harry and Frank, while Cudjo and I took the younger ones in our arms, and Mary was left free to botanise as we passed along.
From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
"I will go with you," said Gerard, "if you do not botanise, for I cannot endure that cursed stooping and mountain-climbing."
From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. by Ludwig Tieck
Some went to good points for sketching, some to botanise, and others to ascend the highest of the neighbouring peaks.
From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
