herbariumnoun [ C ]
/hɜːˈbeə.ri.əm//ɜː˞ˈber.i.əm/a collection of dried plants:
A herbarium will contain thousands of sheets of dated, pressed plants.
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- He was collecting plants for the museum's herbarium.
- She is curator of the Botanical Gardens' herbarium.
- The herbarium was founded in 1864 by one of the first botany professors in the country.
- Originally, herbariums served as lending libraries for newly discovered plants.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Groups and collections of things
- agglomeration
- Aladdin's cave
- anthology
- assemblage
- bank
- basket
- cache
- empty set
- ensemble
- feast
- generation
- glory box
- grab bag
- package
- pool
- sheaf
- sheaves
- subgroup
- vintage
- wad
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