botanise
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See also: botanisé
English[edit]
Verb[edit]
botanise (third-person singular simple present botanises, present participle botanising, simple past and past participle botanised)
- Alternative spelling of botanize
- 1906, James Barr, Laughing through a wilderness, page 261:
- We were incompetent to map the country we passed through, to chart the waters, to geologise, botanise, zoologise, astronomise, or to any other ise.
- 1931, Cambridge Public Library Record - Volume 3, Issue 11, page 90:
- This is a land of very great interest, even to those who do not specially botanise or 'zoologise.'
- 1992, Andro Linklater, Compton Mackenzie: A Life, page 265:
- 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.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /bɔ.ta.niz/
- Homophones: botanisent, botanises
Verb[edit]
botanise
- inflection of botaniser: