herbarium
noun
a collection of dried plants systematically arranged.
herbaria
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pluralof herbarium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This intensive fieldwork resulted in over a thousand new specimens deposited at the National Herbarium of Canada at the Canadian Museum of Nature and other herbaria worldwide.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
Fraga is tracking down reported sightings of a monkeyflower species she identified in herbaria specimens: Erythranthe marmorata, which has bright yellow petals with red spots.
From Salon ● May 31, 2023
“There are undoubtedly more undescribed extinct species sitting in herbaria, collected 100 years ago.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
Botanists have been identifying and naming plants collected there since the 17th century, with samples stored in herbaria around the world.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2020
The Berlin herbarium is especially rich in more recent collections, and other national herbaria sufficiently extensive to subserve the requirements of the systematic botanist exist at St Petersburg, Vienna, Leiden, Stockholm, Upsala, Copenhagen and Florence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
