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单词 hortus siccus
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hortus siccusn.

/ˈhɔːtəs ˈsɪkəs/
Etymology: Latin, = dry garden.
An arranged collection of dried plants; a herbarium.
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1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant Pref. B ij It is a Collection of all the Plants of those Countries, which in Botanick terms is called a Hortus Siccus.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 7 July 209 I..bought a Hortus siccus of inestimable value.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 201 Flowers in the court looking fit for a hortus siccus.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. vi. 48 The furs were packed, my sketches and wet hortus siccus [mosses, etc.] properly combined, and we started again.
figurative.1763 T. Gray Let. 5 Aug. in Corr. (1971) II. 805 [At Cambridge] where no events grow, tho' we preserve those of former days by way of Hortus Siccus in our libraries.1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 15 The ample collection of known classes, genera and species, which at present beautify the hortus siccus of dissent. View more context for this quotation
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