Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually metal case used for carrying collected plant specimens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A botanist's case or box for carrying specimens as he collects them.
- noun In botany, same as
ascidium , 2. - noun In anatomy: A small vessel; a vas.
- noun The penis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Same as
ascidium , n., 1. - noun A tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in collecting plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
container used bybotanists to keepsamples viable by maintaining acool ,humid environment .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cap. In crastino mane venit quidam sacerdos frater ipsius Coiac postulans vasculum cum chrismate, quia Sartach volebat illud videre, vt dicebat, et dedimus ei.
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Cap. In crastino mane venit quidam sacerdos frater ipsius Coiac postulans vasculum cum chrismate, quia Sartach volebat illud videre, vt dicebat, et dedimus ei.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Their sharp eyes quickly marked Simeon filling his vasculum with the coveted specimens, and, waving their hands in friendly greeting, two of them advanced at a gallop.
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The direction which follows orders the chrism to be poured "in modum crucis" - "et quique voluerit implet vasculum aqua benedictionis ad domos consecrandas et populus praesens aspergitur aqua benedicta".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Don't forget to take a vasculum or a basket, and a hammer for fossils, and be sure you put on strong boots.
The Luckiest Girl in the School Angela Brazil 1907
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At last Mr. Adiesen and his sister came from the house, the former carrying a vasculum and field-telescope, the latter burdened with shawls and umbrellas, which were an insult to the sun, smiling that day as he seldom condescends to smile on Hialtland.
Viking Boys Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby 1891
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Ayres, a nice gentle-mannered man, a bachelor and something of a recluse in his private house, where he lived alone and spent all his week-ends and holidays roaming about the plains with his vasculum in search of rare plants.
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Here, I'll give you some collecting boxes, and lend you a vasculum and a net.
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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Long, peeping into the vasculum hung by a strap from his shoulder.
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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‘A Voider to take vp the fragmentes, _vasculum fragmentarium, analactarium, vel aristophorum_.’
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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