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

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.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Great poets are tortured and massacred by having their flowers of fancy gathered and gummed down in the hortus siccus of an anthology.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

The old mythologists worked at a hortus siccus, at myths dried and pressed in thoroughly literary books, Greek and Latin. 

From Modern Mythology by Lang, Andrew

He devoted much of his time to botany, and left a hortus siccus of forty folio volumes, in which he described the more interesting plants of Virginia and North Carolina.

From General Scott by Wright, Marcus Joseph

Indeed, I find a difficulty in procuring a hortus siccus.

From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Roberts, Miss Emma