botanize

• botanise

From botany +‎ -ize.

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; to collect plants for research purposes.

   1770: Dr Solander and Myself were botanizing — Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 January 22.

   • Maria Edgeworth

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

   • 1866, John Holmes Agnew & ‎Walter Hilliard, The Eclectic Magazine - Volume 4, 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: The Unconventional Experiences of a Woman on Tramp Round the World, 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. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of botanizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of botanizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of botanizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of botanizar