Definition of hortus siccus in English:
hortus siccus
nounPlural horti sicci ˌhɔːtəs ˈsɪkəsˌhôrdəs ˈsikəs
An arranged collection of dried plants; a herbarium.
Example sentencesExamples
- But really discussion seems pretty superfluous here and now; for if the better opinion were that history is a mere hortus siccus of documents and anecdotes, there would be no reason why I should be here at all, or, being here, why there should be any one to listen to me.
- The hortus siccus of Petrus Cadéis is a description of the oldest known collection of dried plants made in the Low Countries.
- There are no Dutch collections made by him in DBN; the entry in Index Herbariorum is incorrect as the Dutch collection (i.e. this hortus siccus) was prepared by ‘Dominus Gayvian’.
- He has also taken to collecting a hortus siccus, and was once mentioned in the Saturday Magazine as having been the first to find a plant, whose name I have forgotten, in the neighbourhood of Battersby.
- My business was to collect specimens as for a hortus siccus; not to cull flowers as for an anthology.
- Although still young, he has evinced powers of a nature very unusual in men whose lives, like his own, have been mainly devoted to the hortus siccus of classical erudition.
- Each hortus siccus she sent was remarkable for the precision both of mounting and description.
Origin
Latin, literally 'dry garden'.