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botanize

/bot-n-ahyz/US // ˈbɒt nˌaɪz //UK // (ˈbɒtəˌnaɪz) //

植物化,植物学,植物人

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bot·a·nized, bot·a·niz·ing.

    • : to study plants or plant life.
    • : to collect plants for scientific study.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bot·a·nized, bot·a·niz·ing.

    • : to explore botanically; study the plant life of.

Examples

  • For with me to botanize is one of the dearest of pursuits, amounting to a veritable passion.

  • Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

  • How glad dear papa would have been to come and stay with us, and botanize and geologize amongst your rocks there!

  • I never dig up my dead and I never botanize on the graves of the past.

  • Of course no woman stops to botanize when the object is to get there.