Definition of "botanizing" [botanizing]

• Present participle of botanize. (verb)

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• "Another part revolves around Stephen's "botanizing", his catching of the "yellow jack" and his close encounter with death."
• "Born into a world whose cleverness he dreaded, whose institutions he loathed, whose angers he provoked, whose authorities he scandalised, whose crowds he hated, he went aside "botanizing" and"
• "As Ms. Ridley says, Baret lived to circle the globe, botanizing on the sides of the Strait of Magellan, traversing the Pacific, climbing on the slopes of an island volcano, and trekking through the rain forest of Madagascar, before finally finding her way back to France."