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botanizer

botanizer noun: an amateur botanist, especially one who enjoys finding plants in nature and identifying them.

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 botanizer

pluralbotanizers
alternative formbotaniser

Origin of botanizer

From botanize + -er.

Questions about botanizer

What does botanizer mean?
Botanizer means an amateur botanist, especially one who enjoys finding plants in nature and identifying them.
What part of speech is botanizer?
Botanizer is a noun.
What is the plural of botanizer?
The plural of botanizer is botanizers.

Words near botanizer in the dictionary

  1. botanist
  2. botanistic
  3. botanists
  4. botanize
  5. botanized
  6. botanizer
  7. botanizers
  8. botanizes
  9. botanizing
  10. botanogenomics
  11. botanol

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