Definition of "botanizes" [botanizes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of botanize. (verb)

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• "This, he soon realizes, was the wrong response in a residence where "every thing, even to the table on which we supped, was holy," but he botanizes Mount Zion with impunity and finds a new species of tick at the site of Christ's temptation."
• "She sketches and paints in water colors, and botanizes, and looks for bits of stones and rocks which she examines through a glass, and translates French and generally potters around."
• "They are so big that there's room for all kinds, and it turns out that Lady Cressida is the moral one -- married a clergy-man and does missionary work in the East End. Think of my taking such a lot of trouble about a clergyman's wife, who wears Indian jewelry and botanizes!"