hortus siccus
English
Etymology
From Latin hortus (“garden”) + siccus (“dry”).
Noun
hortus siccus
- A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved and arranged systematically; a herbarium.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 13:
- 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.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 13: