botanise

See also: botanisé

English

Verb

botanise (third-person singular simple present botanises, present participle botanising, simple past and past participle botanised)

  1. Alternative spelling of botanize
    • 1906, James Barr, Laughing through a wilderness, page 261:
      We were incompetent to map the country we passed through, to chart the waters, to geologise, botanise, zoologise, astronomise, or to any other ise.
    • 1931, Cambridge Public Library Record - Volume 3, Issue 11, page 90:
      This is a land of very great interest, even to those who do not specially botanise or 'zoologise.'
    • 1992, Andro Linklater, Compton Mackenzie: A Life, page 265:
      He sleeps by day because to be awake in sunlight would be, for him, an irresistible temptation to botanise, zoologise, nephelologise, and do no work.

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Pronunciation

Verb

botanise

  1. inflection of botaniser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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