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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Herborized

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Herborizing

[F.

herboriser

, for

herbariser

, fr. L.

herbarium

. See

To search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them.

herborized

as he traveled.

W. Tooke.

Verb.

To form the figures of plants in; – said in reference to minerals. See

Herborized

stones contain fine mosses.

Fourcroy (Trans.)

Verb.

To search for plants, or to seek new species of plants, with a view to ascertain their characters and to class them.

He herborized as he traveled, and enriched the Flora Suecica with new discoveries.

Verb.

To figure; to form the figures of plants in minerals. [See Arborize.]