Crossword clues for botanize
botanize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Botanize \Bot"a*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Botanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Botanizing.] [Cf. F. botaniser.] To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
Botanize \Bot"a*nize\, v. t. To explore for botanical purposes.
Wiktionary
vb. To do the work of a botanist; as to inventory the plant life in an area; to collect plants for research purposes.
WordNet
v. collect and study plants [syn: botanise]
Usage examples of "botanize".
Two or three miles from Porth there is a great marsh made by the Afon River before it falls into the sea, and here Merritt had been accustomed to botanize mildly.
But if you are botanizing in the marsh, like that poor fellow who was staying at Porth, and forty or fifty young cattle gradually close round you, and refuse to move when you shout and wave your stick, but get closer and closer instead, and get you into the slime.
Think of my taking such a lot of trouble about a clergyman's wife, who wears Indian jewelry and botanizes!
But she had to content herself with an occasional murmur of small talk, on a bench before the sea, with two or three English ladies of the botanizing class.
She learned eventually from one of the botanizing spinsters that he was not a prince, that he was simply an English gentleman, Mr.
She was surrounded in the drawing-room by various objects, indicative of her painting a little, playing the piano a little, playing the guitar a little, playing the harp a little, singing a little, working a little, reading a little, writing poetry a little, and botanizing a little.
What it offered was a wide range of possibilities for nature study and botanizing, and she took to these with enthusiasm.