botanise

present singular third person botanises · participle present botanising · participle past botanised · past botanised

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of botanize.

   This is a land of very great interest, even to those who do not specially botanise or 'zoologise.'

   1931, Cambridge Public Library Record - Volume 3, Issue 11, page 90

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   We were incompetent to map the country we passed through, to chart the waters, to geologise, botanise, zoologise, astronomise, or to any other ise.

   1906, James Barr, Laughing through a wilderness, page 261

   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.

   1992, Andro Linklater, Compton Mackenzie: A Life, page 265