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Hortus siccus

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Noun
  1. 1
    A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved and arranged systematically; a herbarium.

    "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."

Etymology

From Latin hortus (“garden”) + siccus (“dry”).

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