botanize
/ˈbɒtənaɪz/
Meaning
To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.
Examples
1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 January 22. http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html#banks
Dr Solander and Myself were botanizing
When he was not studying, he was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain.
'Tis best when Frank takes his cousin ashore, / She loves botanising, / While Sissy who's left, can handle an oar / In a manner surprising.
The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.
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.
Word Forms
botanizes
botanizing
botanized
botanise
Etymology
Etymology tree
English botany
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English botanize
From botany + -ize.