German

Noun

Herbarium n ‎(plural Herbarien)

1. herbarium

English

Noun

herbarium ‎(plural herbariums or herbaria)

1. A collection of dried plants or parts of plants.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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.

Related terms

• fungarium
• hortorium
• xylarium

Translations

See also

• arboretum
• botanical garden

Latin

Alternative forms

• herb.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /herˈbaː.ri.um/

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.

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

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Descendants

References

• herbārium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• HERBARIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “herbārĭum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 741/3.