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
So did he botanize universally upon the earth after every spear and sprig of knowledge.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
I botanize, and read some, but cook 'heaps' more.
From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Hough, Emerson
It appeared that Ponsonby had landed with a surveying party from the ship, one morning in January, on the Patagonian side of the Straits, and set out to botanize while his companions worked.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
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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