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
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
He would forbid you newspapers and order you to botanize and prescribe tranquillizing reading; Trollope's novels, the Life of Gladstone, the works of Mr. A. C. Benson, memoirs and so on.
From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Here I would botanize or geologize at my will.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules
Lowell's attitude toward science is that of Wordsworth, when he speaks of the dry-souled scientist as one who is all eyes and no heart, "One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."
From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. by Lowell, James Russell
I am at London, and the idea occurs to me to start for the Amazon and botanize there for a few months.
From Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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