herbarium (plural herbariums)

1. A collection of dried plants or parts of plants.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, 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.

• herbarial

• French: herbier
• German: Herbarium
• Italian: erbario
• Portuguese: herbário
• Russian: герба́рий
• Spanish: herbario

• German: Herbarium
• Italian: erbario