Word.ws English Dictionary

botaniser

botaniser is the alternative spelling of botanizer.

Meaning of botanizer

Noun

botanizer (plural botanizers)

  1. An amateur botanist, especially one who enjoys finding plants in nature and identifying them.
    • The most common though sometimes difficult to tell apart yellow members of the sunflower family are arnicas, groundsels, goldenrods, and mountain-dandelions. There are so many confusing members of this family that some botanizers use the term DYC for "damn yellow composite."2008, James Luther Davis, The Northwest Nature Guide, page 205

Forms of botaniser

pluralbotanisers

Origin of botaniser

From botanise + -er.

Questions about botaniser

What is botaniser the alternative spelling of?
Botaniser is the alternative spelling of botanizer.

Words near botaniser in the dictionary

  1. botanicks
  2. botanics
  3. botanies
  4. botanise
  5. botanised
  6. botaniser
  7. botanisers
  8. botanises
  9. botanising
  10. botanism
  11. botanist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: botaniser (page history and authors); botanizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “botaniser.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/botaniser. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.