Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of exsiccatum
nounexsiccata (plural exsiccatae)
plural exsiccatae
- A set of dried specimens such as that in a herbarium.
The exsiccatae formed a genre ideally suited to the observational skills of these most local of collectors.
2011, David N. Livingstone, Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, page 2971 more example
This consists of over 1000 specimens from different parts of the state , made by various collectors, and forms a nucleus of an exsiccata of the Uredinales of Washington.
1925, Puget Sound Marine Station Publications, volume 4, Puget Sound Biological Station, page 274
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