Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A collection of dried plants mounted, labeled, and systematically arranged for use in scientific study.
- noun A place or institution where such a collection is kept.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A collection of dried plants systematically arranged; a hortus siccus.
- noun A book or other contrivance for preserving dried specimens of plants.
- noun An edifice or place in which plants are preserved for botanical purposes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged.
- noun A book or case for preserving dried plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
collection of driedplants or parts of plants. - noun A
building orinstitution where such a collection is kept.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I was working in a herbarium, which is like a plant reference library.
Keeping it real... doyle 2009
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Thus Brother Oswin's latest achievement in the herbarium was the reason for Cadfael returning to his workshop that evening after supper, and for his involvement in all that happened afterwards.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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Thus Brother Oswin's latest achievement in the herbarium was the reason for Cadfael returning to his workshop that evening after supper, and for his involvement in all that happened afterwards.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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His herbarium is the first collection deserving the name.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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History, and collected, described, drew, or dried, a considerable number of plants then unknown in Europe, gave new information upon their use in medicine or manufactures, and collected an immense herbarium, which is now preserved with the greater part of his manuscripts in the British Museum in London.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866
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A herbarium is a collection of dried, generally mounted, plant specimens used for a number of purposes, including documenting the taxonomy of a species or like a library that contains a collection of books for reading or useful materials for common use.
YubaNet.com 2010
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Like the museum's other biological collections of birds, insects, prehistoric bones and mammals, the herbarium is a tangible repository of life past and present.
Fore, right! < 2010
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Plants and fungi of all sorts cram the herbarium, which is located under a student dining hall on the Logan campus.
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Plants and fungi of all sorts cram the herbarium, which is located under a student dining hall on the Logan campus.
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Plants and fungi of all sorts cram the herbarium, which is located under a student dining hall on the Logan campus.
yarb commented on the word herbarium
...before they had come across the herbarium in the attic...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor.
May 17, 2008