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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
botanize .
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Examples
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Yet Linnaeus was delighted with Osbeck's journal, which described novel plants, harbor boats filled with hundreds of ducks trained to come and go on command, and a populace with the nasty habit of throwing rocks at him while he botanized.
Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net Jennie Erin Smith 2012
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He did occasional odd jobs, puttered with fruitless inventions, commented wryly on the gaudy events of the day, botanized, talked with his father, wrote a few articles, and looked for a job.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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He did occasional odd jobs, puttered with fruitless inventions, commented wryly on the gaudy events of the day, botanized, talked with his father, wrote a few articles, and looked for a job.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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She botanized, fished, and shot, unheeding her secret admirer.
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As an evidence of the assiduity with which he botanized, it may be mentioned that he had seen the _Geranium
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While visiting Paris in 1738 Linnæus met and botanized with the two botanists whose ` ` natural method '' of classification was later to supplant his own ` ` artificial system. ''
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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So my friend came down again, in his tourist capacity; put up at the same quarters, strolled about, fished a bit, botanized a bit, attended the adjourned inquest as a casual spectator, and -- abstracted the tobacco-box under the very noses of the police!
Ravensdene Court 1899
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I have never fished nor botanized here, but I have been a-birding many times.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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Mrs.D. and I went out and botanized till a little after dinner time, and then she and I got into the wagon, packed my traps, took King, and bid Douglas adieu, and drove to Prince William.
Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home" Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1896
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On we came, to the top of the Great Schiedeck, where H. and W. botanized, while I slept.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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