botanise
See also: botanisé
English
Verb
botanise (third-person singular simple present botanises, present participle botanising, simple past and past participle botanised)
- 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.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔ.ta.niz/
- Homophones: botanisent, botanises
Verb
botanise
- inflection of botaniser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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