botanize
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[edit]botanize (third-person singular simple present botanizes, present participle botanizing, simple past and past participle botanized)
- To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.
- 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 January 22. [1]
- Dr Solander and Myself were botanizing
- 1809, Maria Edgeworth, Ennui:
- When he was not studying, he was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain.
- 1878 June, “Ludovic” [pseudonym], “Epicene Boating”, in The Kentish Magazine, number II, Maidstone, Kent: Burgiss-Brown, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […], →OCLC, page 63:
- 'Tis best when Frank takes his cousin ashore, / She loves botanising, / While Sissy who's left, can handle an oar / In a manner surprising.
- 1866, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard, The Eclectic Magazine, volume IV, page 188:
- The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.
- 1931, Marie Beuzeville Byles, By Cargo Boat & Mountain, page 141:
- There it erects tents capable of holding about one hundred and fifty people, and there the members and their friends gather for a fortnight to climb mountains, botanize, zoologize, or merely enjoy life.
- 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 January 22. [1]
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[edit]do the work of a botanist
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[edit]botanize
- inflection of botanizar: