hortus siccus

English

Etymology

From Latin hortus (“garden”) + siccus (“dry”).

Noun

hortus siccus

1. A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved and arranged systematically; a herbarium.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 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.