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‖ hortus siccus|ˈhɔːtəs ˈsɪkəs|
[Lat., = dry garden.]
An arranged collection of dried plants; a herbarium.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. Pref. B ij, It is a Collection of all the Plants of those Countries, which in Botanick terms is called a Hortus Siccus. 1759Johnson Idler No. 64 ⁋5, I..bought a Hortus Siccus of inestimable value. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 38 Flowers in the court looking fit for a hortus siccus. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. vi. 48 (Stanf.) The furs were packed, my sketches and wet hortus siccus [mosses, etc.] properly combined, and we started again.
fig.1763Gray Let. to Wharton 5 Aug., [At Cambridge] where no events grow, though we preserve those of former days, by way of Hortus Siccus in our libraries. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. (ed. 3) 15 The ample collection of known classes, genera, and species, which at present beautify the hortus siccus of dissent. |