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
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She liked to botanize, collecting specimens of plants along the route.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 2, 2017
We will not "peep and botanize" on sacred soil, nor submit our most refined delights to the impertinences of critical analysis.
From Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell
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 Louis Klopsch
We have lost only one of our number since we came—namely, Diggory, the market-gardener, from Glasgow, who went out one morning to botanize, and never came back.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) by Various
I feasted awhile on their beauty, watching their coming in from afar like faithful messengers, to tell their stories one by one; then I turned reluctantly away, to botanize and wait a calm.
From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir
In these walks young master botanized and geologized his own father, and Sir Charles gave him a little politics, history, and English poetry, in return.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade
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
We recognized with pleasure the spots where we had botanized when going up the Orinoco.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe
She dressed the house with them, getting help from the garden when necessary; botanized a good deal; and began to grow as knowing in plants almost as Mrs. Caxton herself.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
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
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 Felix Adler
The Grand Llama being present, I want to bring you on the scene as a charming, botanizing, singing niece whom she has strangely neglected.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
I have even had to give up my old hobby of botanizing, or, rather, I have voluntarily given it up, in order to devote more time to the study of humanity.
From Edelweiss A Story by Berthold Auerbach
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