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
Two or three miles from Porth there is a great marsh made by the Afon river before it falls into the sea, and here Merritt had been accustomed to botanize mildly.
From The Terror A Mystery by Machen, Arthur
And De Sauty shall spare them, though he botanize on his mother's grave.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various
He is the true philosopher who can Peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave if the flowers required by science happen to grow there.
From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various
Such a writer can, indeed, peep and botanize on the grave of Mother Nature, but never evoke her spirit.
From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey
On we came, to the top of the Great Schiedeck, where H. and W. botanized, while I slept.
From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
It being high noon, we stopped and landed at this bit of fairy land, ate our dinner, and botanized.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
On we came, to the top of the Great Schiedich, where H. and W. botanized, while I slept.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
His father was named Doctor Zoppo, came from Pavia, botanized himself from Italy to Germany, and let the little ones tear yellow flowers along the way.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
I have never fished nor botanized here, but I have been a-birding many times.
From Roof and Meadow by Sharp, Dallas Lore
Gardeners will savor stories of 19th century botanizing and appreciate Hosack’s quest to save a garden, the most ephemeral of treasures, for posterity.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
Ray encouraged Willughby’s interests in mathematics and took him botanizing.
From Nature ● May 1, 2018
There is an immense deal to be done in the way of botanizing.
From Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
For instance, in giving an account of a botanizing expedition, you begin, perhaps, by saying, "It was half-past ten when we arrived at our destination."
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix
In December, the weather being unusually mild, with no snow on the ground, I visited the woods on the last botanizing expedition of the year.
From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various
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