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(intransitive) To study zoology, especially by collecting animals to be studied..
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.
She is later joined by CK, who delights in the opportunity to zoologize on the sea-shore.
Broaden your horizons beyond the field that you were trained in so that you resist the ever-present temptation to over-engineer, over-botanize, or over-zoologize the wetlands that you create and restore.
The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.
Somehow, wherever Sue was, Ned always seemed in the same vicinity, discussing fiddler crabs or something equally slimy, and they seem likely to zoologize through life together.
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Zoologize means (intransitive) To study zoology, especially by collecting animals to be studied..
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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.
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