herborise

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A form of herborize — To seek and classify new or previously known plant species.

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Meanings

verbherborise (third-person singular simple present herborises, present participle herborising, simple past and past participle herborised)

present singular third person herborises · participle present herborising · participle past herborised · past herborised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of herborize.

    At the end of September in the year 1829, Ehrenberg and myself also herborised on the Samara, during our journey from Orenburg and Uralsk to Saratow and the Caspian Sea.

    1850, Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander Humboldt, Views of nature
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    Whilst Dr Weddell herborised, adding nearly a hundred species of plants to his collection, the engineer studied the Lancha with other views, and at last resolved to sound it.

    1853, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 74, page 147
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Chicago

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