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botanize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɒtənaɪz/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English botany Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English botanize From botany + -ize.

Meanings

1. To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.
   • When he was not studying, he was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain. 1809, Maria Edgeworth, Ennui:
   • 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 January 22. http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html#banks Dr Solander and Myself were botanizing
   • 'Tis best when Frank takes his cousin ashore, / She loves botanising, / While Sissy who's left, can handle an oar / In a manner surprising. 1878 June, “Ludovic” [pseudonym], “Epicene Boating”, in The Kentish Magazine, number II, Maidstone, Kent: Burgiss-Brown, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […], →OCLC, page 63:
   • 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. 1931, Marie Beuzeville Byles, By Cargo Boat & Mountain, page 141:
   • The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors. 1866, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard, The Eclectic Magazine, volume IV, page 188:

Forms

Deriveds

botanizer

Translations (14)

cs botanizovat (do the work of a botanist) · be батанізаваць (do the work of a botanist) · el βοτανολογώ (do the work of a botanist) · ro botaniza (do the work of a botanist) · uk ботанізувати (do the work of a botanist) · ru ботанизировать (do the work of a botanist) · da botanisere (do the work of a botanist) · io botanizar (do the work of a botanist) · sk botanizovat (do the work of a botanist) · es botanizar (do the work of a botanist) · pt botanizar (do the work of a botanist) · de botanisieren (do the work of a botanist) · fr botaniser (do the work of a botanist) · sv botanisera (do the work of a botanist)