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)
On the narrow lake we found a small boat, in which Mr. Moser pushed about to botanize.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
It was a famous place in which to botanize, and the girls were allowed to disperse and hunt about for specimens, and came back every now and then to show their finds to their teacher.
From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela
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
Many a man has botanized across the continent, and yet not know the "Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley."
From New Tabernacle Sermons by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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
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
While visiting Paris in 1738 Linnaeus met and botanized with the two botanists whose "natural method" of classification was later to supplant his own "artificial system."
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
They had talked, and walked, and botanized together in the wood, in spite of Miss Rylance; and Urania felt somehow that the day had been a failure.
From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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
About the same time two other Spaniards, Drs. Ruiz and Pavon, were botanizing in Chili, and came across the Araucaria, of which they sent herbarium specimens to Europe.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward
They passed their days in exploring the forest, then larger and wilder than now, botanizing and butterfly-hunting.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha
An old man, with a Rousseau love for botanizing, had been found dead in the woods, with five red leaves in his hand.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
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