Botanizer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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