Botanizer
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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.""
Example
More examples"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.""
Etymology
From botanize + -er.
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