botanizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From botany +‎ -ize.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtənaɪz/

動詞

botanize (三人称単数 現在形 botanizes, 現在分詞 botanizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 botanized)

1. To do the work of a botanist, as to inventory the plant life in an area and to collect plants for research purposes.
   • 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 January 22. [1]

     Dr Solander and Myself were botanizing

   • 1809, Maria Edgeworth, Ennui

     When he was not studying, he was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain.

   • 1878 June, “Ludovic” [pseudonym], “Epicene Boating”, in The Kentish Magazine, number II, Maidstone, Kent: Burgiss-Brown, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […], OCLC 504127403, page 63:

     'Tis best when Frank takes his cousin ashore, / She loves botanising, / While Sissy who's left, can handle an oar / In a manner surprising.

   • 1866, John Holmes Agnew & ‎Walter Hilliard, The Eclectic Magazine, volume IV, page 188:

     The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.

   • 1931, Marie Beuzeville Byles, By Cargo Boat & Mountain, page 141:

     There it erects tents capable of holding about one hundred and fifty people, and there the members and their friends gather for a fortnight to climb mountains, botanize, zoologize, or merely enjoy life.