单词 | botanizing |
释义 | botanizingn. The action of looking for plants, or of studying plants botanically. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > practical botanizing1666 herborization1698 herborizing1789 1666 D. Coxe Let. 19 Feb. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 73 One Evening as I returned from Botanizing..I found the whole house in an uproar. 1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV (ed. 5) 340 In this botanizing age, it should not pass without observation. 1859 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes iv. 103 The..professor led his students, each summer's Saturday, on a botanizing march. 1873 Pop. Sci. June 161 He often took his class on botanizing excursions. 1914 Times 28 Apr. 11/6 It will be some time before the average schoolboy comes to look on a botanizing tin..with the enthusiasm that he gives to an oar or a cricket bat. 1969 F. David Hoeniger & J. F. M. Hoeniger Devel. Nat. Hist. in Tudor Eng. 21 A teenager by the name of William Turner was actively engaged in botanizing, bird watching and studies of other animals. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Sept. 85/1 In addition to his botanizing and his ornithology, Clare was a collector of folk music and ballads. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). botanizingadj. That searches for or studies plants. ΚΠ 1800 R. Polewhele Unsex'd Females 11 To such language our botanizing girls are doubtless familiarized. 1916 Sci. Monthly Oct. 346 The botanizing governor of the New York colony died in the year of the Declaration of Independence. 2006 Internat. Hist. Rev. 28 144 The botanizing colonizers played a part in the formulation of scientific knowledge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1666adj.1800 |
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