botanize

• botanise

From botany +‎ -ize.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtənaɪz/

botanize (third-person singular simple present botanizes, present participle botanizing, simple past and past participle botanized)

1. To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.
   • 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 January 22.

     Dr Solander and Myself were botanizing

   • 1809, Maria Edgeworth, Ennui:

     When he was not studying, he was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain.

   • 1878 June, “Ludovic” , “Epicene Boating”, in The Kentish Magazine, number II, Maidstone, Kent: Burgiss-Brown, ; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., , →OCLC, page 63:

     'Tis best when Frank takes his cousin ashore, / She loves botanising, / While Sissy who's left, can handle an oar / In a manner surprising.

   • 1866, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard, The Eclectic Magazine, volume IV, page 188:

     The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.

   • 1931, Marie Beuzeville Byles, By Cargo Boat & Mountain, page 141:

     There it erects tents capable of holding about one hundred and fifty people, and there the members and their friends gather for a fortnight to climb mountains, botanize, zoologize, or merely enjoy life.

botanize

1. inflection of botanizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative