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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who botanizes.

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  • noun An amateur botanist, especially one who enjoys finding plants in nature and identifying them.

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Examples

  • But Scott, of course, had even less in common with the peeper and botanizer on maidens 'hearts than with the wildest romanticist.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • Some of the plants ended up with Aylmer Burke Lambert, a chaotic botanizer who exasperated his colleagues because typically he’d heap together collections of dried plants and then leave them uncatalogued.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Some of the plants ended up with Aylmer Burke Lambert, a chaotic botanizer who exasperated his colleagues because typically he’d heap together collections of dried plants and then leave them uncatalogued.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • But Scott, of course, had even less in common with the peeper and botanizer on maidens’ hearts than with the wildest romanticist.

    Waverley 2004

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