v. [ad. mod.L. botanizāre, ad. Gr. βοτανίζειν to gather plants; cf. BOTANIC and -IZE.]

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  1.  intr. To seek for plants for botanical purposes; to study plants botanically.

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1767.  Mrs. Delany, Lett., Ser. II. I. 168. They will botanize charmingly (and I shall come in for some scraps of knowledge).

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1775.  Masson, in Phil. Trans., LXVI. 296. In the day.time they retire to the woods, which renders it very dangerous to botanize there.

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a. 1841.  Wordsw., Poet’s Epitaph. Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother’s grave?

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  2.  trans. To explore or examine botanically. Hence Botanized ppl. a.

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1861.  Geikie, E. Forbes, x. 285. To botanize the islands thoroughly.

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1866.  Kingsley, Herew., i. 49. The world was not to him as to us, round, circumscribed, mapped, botanized.

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