botanize, v.
(ˈbɒtənaɪz)
[ad. mod.L. botanizāre, ad. Gr. βοτανίζειν to gather plants; cf. botanic and -ize.]
1. intr. To seek for plants for botanical purposes; to study plants botanically.
| 1767 Mrs. Delany Lett. Ser. ii. I. 168 They will botanize charmingly (and I shall come in for some scraps of knowledge). 1775 Masson in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 296 In the day-time they retire to the woods, which renders it very dangerous to botanize there. a 1841 Wordsw. Poet's Epitaph, Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave? |
2. trans. To explore or examine botanically. Hence ˈbotanized ppl. a.
| 1861 Geikie E. Forbes x. 285 To botanize the islands thoroughly. 1866 Kingsley Herew. i. 49 The world was not to him as to us, round, circumscribed, mapped, botanized. |