Botanize

Quick meaning: Botanize is a verb meaning To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.

Meaning

To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.

Example Sentences

When he was not studying, he was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain.

The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.

'Tis best when Frank takes his cousin ashore, / She loves botanising, / While Sissy who's left, can handle an oar / In a manner surprising.

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.

Word Forms

• botanizes
• botanizing
• botanized
• botanise

Synonyms for botanize

Depending on context, synonyms include botanise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include botanise, herborize, herbalize, naturalize, volunteer, plant.

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