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hortus siccus
[ hawr-tuhs sik-uhs ]
noun
- a collection of dried plants; herbarium.
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Origin of hortus siccus1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hortus siccus1
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Example Sentences
The old mythologists worked at a hortus siccus, at myths dried and pressed in thoroughly literary books, Greek and Latin.
The floral outfit of pastoral poets, when Crabbe began to write, was a hortus siccus indeed.
It would make, he said, a splendid place for a hortus siccus--a "great ornament to our ponds and ditches."
The hortus siccus of a botanist may accidentally sow seeds from the foot of the Himalayas on the plains that skirt the Alps.
He has incidentally thrown out much curious knowledge—such as his plan for forming a Hortus Siccus, &c.
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