botanize
Americanverb (used without object)
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to study plants or plant life.
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to collect plants for scientific study.
verb (used with object)
verb
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(intr) to collect or study plants
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(tr) to explore and study the plants in (an area or region)
Other Word Forms
- botanizer noun
Etymology
Origin of botanize
1760–70; < New Latin botanizāre < Greek botanízein to gather plants. See botanist, -ize
Example Sentences
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She liked to botanize, collecting specimens of plants along the route.
From National Geographic • Jul. 2, 2017
We would bury both theological rancor and atheistical pretension in the same barrow, and agree never to "peep and botanize" over their common grave.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
Coristine proposed to botanize, but did not care to detain the expedition by continually opening his knapsack, nor to incommode himself with the burden of the strap press.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
To study Nature it is not necessary to go out into the fields and botanize, nor to attempt to make water colours of picturesque scenery.
From Architecture and Democracy by Bragdon, Claude Fayette
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.—H.N.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis
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