hortus siccus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin hortus (“garden”) + siccus (“dry”).
Noun
[edit]hortus siccus
- A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved and arranged systematically; a herbarium.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 13:
- It would certainly be a valuable addition of nondescripts to the ample collection of known classes, genera and species, which at present beautify the hortus siccus of dissent.