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Etymology

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From botanize +‎ -er.

Noun

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botanizer (plural botanizers)

  1. An amateur botanist, especially one who enjoys finding plants in nature and identifying them.
    • 2008, James Luther Davis, The Northwest Nature Guide, page 205:
      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."
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