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botanize, v.|ˈbɒtənaɪz|
[ad. mod.L. botanizāre, ad. Gr. βοτανίζειν to gather plants; cf. botanic and -ize.]
1. intr. To seek for plants for botanical purposes; to study plants botanically.
1767Mrs. Delany Lett. Ser. ii. I. 168 They will botanize charmingly (and I shall come in for some scraps of knowledge). 1775Masson in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 296 In the day-time they retire to the woods, which renders it very dangerous to botanize there. a1841Wordsw. Poet's Epitaph, Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave?
2. trans. To explore or examine botanically. Hence ˈbotanized ppl. a.
1861Geikie E. Forbes x. 285 To botanize the islands thoroughly. 1866Kingsley Herew. i. 49 The world was not to him as to us, round, circumscribed, mapped, botanized. |