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Herbarium   /hərbˈɛriəm/  /ərbˈɛriəm/   Listen
Herbarium

noun
(pl. E. herbariums, L. herbaria)
1.
A collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study.





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"Herbarium" Quotes from Famous Books



... these woods were very rich, he believed, in flowers, among which he mentioned wild geraniums—at which the school began to recover and rustle. That the boys might dry the geraniums and make books for Christmas presents with them, and that he hoped to see a herbarium in the Seminary containing all the wild flowers of the district. The school was now getting into good spirits, and Bulldog allowed his eye to fall on Speug. That any boy who desired to improve his mind was to put on his oldest suit and bring ...
— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren
... fruits. Concerning the work of the different kinds of moulds. Troussart says: "Mucor mucedo devours our preserves; Ascophora mucedo turns our bread mouldy; Molinia is nourished at the expense of our fruits; Mucor herbarium destroys the herbarium of the botanist; and Choetonium chartatum develops itself on paper, on the insides of books and on their bindings, when they come in contact with a damp wall."—Troussart's Microbes, Ferments, ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell


Words linked to "Herbarium" :   collection, assemblage, aggregation, accumulation


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