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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.
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vb. (present participle of botanize English)
Usage examples of "botanizing".
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.