Botanies vs Botanizes - What's the difference?
botanies | botanizes |
(botanize)
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To do the work of a botanist; as to inventory the plant life in an area; to collect plants for research purposes.
* (Maria Edgeworth)
As a noun botanies
is .As a verb botanizes is
(botanize).botanizes
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Verb
(head)botanize
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en-verb)- 1770: Dr Solander and Myself were botanizing'' — , ''The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks , entry for 1770 January 22. [http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html
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- When he was not studying, he was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain.