botanizer

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noun

An amateur botanist, especially one who enjoys finding plants in nature and identifying them.

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Meanings

nounbotanizer (plural botanizers)

plural botanizers · alternative botaniser

  1. An amateur botanist, especially one who enjoys finding plants in nature and identifying them.

    The most common though sometimes difficult to tell apart yellow members of the sunflower family are arnicas, groundsels, goldenrods, and mountain-dandelions. There are so many confusing members of this family that some botanizers use the term DYC for "damn yellow composite."

    2008, James Luther Davis, The Northwest Nature Guide, page 205

Origin

From botanize + -er.

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APA

botanizer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/botanizer

MLA

“botanizer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/botanizer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “botanizer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/botanizer.

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