[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of seeking for plants, or of studying plants botanically. Often attrib.
1794. Mathias, Purs. Lit. (1798), 399. In this botanizing age, it should not pass without observation. [? ppl. a.]
1835. Beckford, Recoll., 183. By getting out of his vehicle and botanizing by the roadside.
1859. G. Wilson, E. Forbes, iv. 103. The … professor led his students, each summer’s Saturday, on a botanizing march.
1883. Phil Robinson, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 706/2. I generally had my botanizing tin on my back.
