exsiccata
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]exsiccata
- plural of exsiccatum
Noun
[edit]exsiccata (countable and uncountable, plural exsiccatae)
- A set of dried specimens such as that in a herbarium.
- 1925, Puget Sound Marine Station Publications, volume 4, Puget Sound Biological Station, page 274:
- This consists of over 1000 specimens from different parts of the state , made by various collectors, and forms a nucleus of an exsiccata of the Uredinales of Washington.
- 2011, David N. Livingstone, Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, page 297:
- The exsiccatae formed a genre ideally suited to the observational skills of these most local of collectors.
References
[edit]- Botanical Latin, William T. Stearn, 1966, Thomas Nelton and Sons Ltd., London, pp. 418, 426
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]exsiccāta
- inflection of exsiccātus:
Participle
[edit]exsiccātā