| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb botanize.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (botanize) | 1. Collect and study plants.[Wordnet]. 2. To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.[Websters]. 3. To explore for botanical purposes.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: botanizing, botanized, botanizes, botanizer, botanizers, botanizingly and botanizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BOTANIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Specialty Definition: botanize
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To seek for plants; to investigate the vegetable kingdom; to study plants. He could not obtain permission to botanize upon mount Sabber.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] To do the work of a botanist; as to inventory the plant life in an area. 1770: Dr Solander and Myself were botanizing — Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 January 22. [1]. (references) | ||
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