Herbarium (Noun)
Meaning
A collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The university's botany department maintained a vast herbarium that was used by researchers from all over the world.
- The herbarium at the natural history museum was home to over 100,000 specimens of plants from every continent.
- To identify the unknown plant, the botanist carefully compared it to the specimens in the herbarium.
- The herbarium was a treasure trove of information for the team of scientists studying the evolution of plant species.
- After years of collecting and preserving plant specimens, the researcher finally had enough material to establish a herbarium of her own.