hortus siccus

American  

[hawr-tuhs sik-uhs] / ˈhɔr təs ˈsɪk əs /

noun

1. a collection of dried plants; herbarium.

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hortus siccus British  

/ ˈhɔːtəs ˈsɪkəs /

noun

1. a less common name for herbarium

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Etymology

Origin of hortus siccus

1680–90; < Latin: dry garden; see garden, sack ³

Example Sentences

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hortus siccus

Lady Mabel seized the occasion to add some new plants to her hortus siccus, which, now swollen to a portentous bulk, occupied the highest place in the load of one of the mules.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru

We compare it with the dry mythologic blossoms of the classical hortus siccus, and with Greek ritual and temple legend, and with Märchen in the scholiasts, and we think the comparisons very illuminating. 

From Modern Mythology by Lang, Andrew

The meadows and forests are a hortus siccus.

From Excursions by Thoreau, Henry David

I’ll let you look over my hortus siccus before you go.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various

“It was originally intended for botanical productions, Tom,” he said; “for a sort of hortus siccus, if you know what that means.”

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville