vasculum

Latin vasculum (“small vessel”).

vasculum (plural vasculums or vascula)

1. A container used by botanists to keep samples viable by maintaining a cool, humid environment.

Diminutive from vās (“vessel”) +‎ -culum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːs.ku.lum/, [ˈwaːs.kʊ.ɫũ]

vāsculum n (genitive vāsculī); second declension

1. A small vessel or container.
2. A small beehive.
3. (by extension) A seed-capsule or seed-vessel.
4. (by extension) The calyx of a fruit.

Second declension.

• vāsculārius
• vāscellum

• vās
• vāsārium
• vāsātus

• English: vasculum
• Italian: vascolo

• vasculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vasculum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vasculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vasculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette