v. To do the work of a botanist; as to inventory the plant life in an area.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verb-intransitive. To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
v. To explore for botanical purposes.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To examine or seek for plants for the purpose of studying and classifying them, etc.; investigate the vegetable kingdom as a botanist.
To explore botanically: as, to botanize a neighborhood.
Also spelled botanise.
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v. collect and study plants
Word Usage
"As a young professor in Uppsala, Linnaeus led his students on plant-collecting hikes, scattering them into the fields to botanize and summoning them to lunch with a trumpet."