单词 | herborize |
释义 | herborizev. 1. intransitive. To tend herbs or plants; to garden. rare. ΚΠ 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (1664) i. xxiii. 109 Little Mattocks, Pickaxes..Pruning-knives, and other instruments requisite for herborising [1653 gardning]. 2. To gather herbs; to botanize. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > practise botany [verb (intransitive)] herborize1752 botanize?1757 1752 T. Stack in Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 52 They herborized together in Catalonia. 1825 tr. C'tess De Genlis' Mem. V. 38 I went with my little companion to herborize in the woods. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 July 11/1 To herborize on the slopes of Parnassus. Derivatives ˈherborizer n. one who herborizes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > practical > one who botanizer1795 herborizer1882 1882 G. A. Sala in Illustr. London News 16 Sept. 295 I am not as Jean Jaques was, a ‘herboriser’, I only study ‘pot herbs’. ˈherborizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > practical botanizing1666 herborization1698 herborizing1789 1789 W. Coxe Trav. Switzerland I. ix. 91 Haller, whom he accompanied in his herborising excursions. 1853 Fraser's Mag. 47 50 Herborizing never ceased..to be the scholar's chief delight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1653 |
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