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?1757 A. R. Curiosities of Paris p. xii Gentlemen..walk with the Students into the Country weekly, during the proper Season a-botanizing.

1800 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. in Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) II. 166 Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave?

1883 M. Oliphant Hester vii. 101 A young man who gets up to botanise in the morning, who will sit at home at night, who has no evil inclinations.

1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. iv. 46 Think of my taking such a lot of trouble about a clergyman's wife who wears Indian jewelry and botanizes!

1961 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 4 Nov. (1995) 308 She is now ninety, but only a few years ago went botanizing in Switzerland.

2000 Nature Conservancy May 8/2 Each time, he explored and botanized.

1814 A. M. Porter Recluse of Norway I. ii. 73 He walked with them, amusing both, by gathering and botanizing the countless wild-flowers that covered the mountains.

1858 Money Bag No. 1. 7 When she was botanising the pretty mosses on the sunny surface of the human heart, it was obviously not my interest officiously to turn the stone, and show her the ugly truth.

1907 B. C. Pal Speeches of Bepin Chandra Pal 132 We have been taught to botanise the oak, to botanise the elm, to botanise the beech..to the neglect of our banyan, our mango groves, our champaka tree, to the neglect of the flora of our own country.

2011 L. D. Ferreiro Meas. of Earth vi. 146 Jussieu, frequently depressed at his inability to botanize the medicinal plants he'd come so far to collect, profited little in monetary terms from his medical expertise.

1837 Analyst 6 21 Having myself previously formed the design of botanizing the neighbourhood of Birmingham, this notice was an additional excitement to exertion.

1861 A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes x. 285 To botanize the islands thoroughly.

1896 Trans. & Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 20 486 Dr. Paul, who was one of the members who botanised the wood, made a careful inspection of the Fungi.

1914 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 41 332 Waldsteinia..has been collected only at the type station, but may have a wider distribution, that region having been rather little botanized.

1937 Rhodora 39 72 Northern Canada has been only locally botanized.

2013 Bartonia 66 100 The group also botanized the extensive areas of exposed mud flats that were present along the Maurice River.

1835 Compan. Bot. Mag. 1 231/1 These examples will suffice to show how very uncertain must yet be our attempts to point out the limits to the extension of species, even in well-botanized Britain.

1865 C. Kingsley Hereward i, in Good Words Jan. 14/1 Not to him as to us, a world circular, sailed around, circumscribed, mapped, botanized.

2008 Jrnl. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2 236 Cerro Campana is a frequently visited and botanized area relatively close to Panama City.