botanize
/ˈbɒtənaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English botany Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English botanize From botany + -ize.