herbarium

See also: Herbarium and herbárium

English

Etymology

From Latin herbārium.

Noun

herbarium (plural herbariums or herbaria)

  1. A collection of dried plants or parts of plants.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
      With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
  2. A building or institution where such a collection is kept.

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From herbārius (“botanist”), from herba (“grass, vegetation”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /herˈbaː.ri.um/, [hɛrˈbaː.ri.ũ]

Noun

herbārium n (genitive herbāriī or herbārī); second declension

  1. a herbarium; a collection of dried plants
  2. a herbarium (a written work on botany)
    Herbarium Apuleii Platonici
    the Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative herbārium herbāria
Genitive herbāriī
herbārī1		 herbāriōrum
Dative herbāriō herbāriīs
Accusative herbārium herbāria
Ablative herbāriō herbāriīs
Vocative herbārium herbāria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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