How to Use herbarium in a Sentence

herbarium

noun

• There are specimens from the school’s herbarium and live plants.
  — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2018
• An herbarium is, in essence, a library of taminate them, and affix them to large sheets of stiff white paper to be stacked and stored landscapes and the human powers that shaped them.
  — Harpers Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
• Near the back, leaning on the vase, is an alga from an herbarium of strange, incredible shapes, which could have been invented by Max Ernst.
  — Louis Benech, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2020
• The seeds and fruits that were selected are a tiny fraction of the three million specimens housed in the Royal Botanic Garden's herbarium, the oldest of which dates back to 1697.
  — CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
• Santore runs down a list of coordinates where prostrata has been observed in the area, thanks to tips from other botanists and old herbarium records.
  — Jesse Will, Outside Online, 15 Mar. 2022
• The country’s main herbarium is a single room at the Royal University of Phnom Penh.
  — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
• The first such plant in Virgnia was apparently identified in Clarke County, one of the herbarium’s postings said.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• The specimens conserved in the herbarium are used for research, with the ultimate goal of identifying each one and naming new species.
  — CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
• One of Ammal’s goals for the botanical survey was to house plant specimens that had been collected from across the continent in an herbarium in India.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
• Many of these flowers were in fact herbs used for medicinal purposes and thus the herbarium of medieval times were not just well known, but based on direct observations of nature.
  — Kim Sajet, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• From scouring the tide pools for the perfect blades, to artfully arranging them on a piece of paper in my herbarium press, every step of the process is immensely satisfying.
  — Annie Roth, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
• Transcribing museum and herbarium records is essential to preserve the knowledge gained over the past few centuries.
  — Guest, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2016
• More than 4 million specimens of these essential algae are plastered onto hundreds of thousands of slides and housed in the academy’s diatom herbarium.
  — Jack Tamisiea, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2022
• Museums and herbariums often share samples of various plant species, allowing experts around the world to study rare specimens.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 May 2017
• Despite specimens sitting in Kew's herbarium for 177 years, new expertise has revealed that the waterlily is a previously unrecognized species.
  — Dylan Butts, NBC News, 4 July 2022
• The herbarium includes dried, pressed plant specimens from as far back as the 1840s and serves as a sort of living lab for students in the CMBG’s native plants and ecological horticulture and botanical arts continuing education programs.
  — Alyssa Giacobbe, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• The names of these substances are perversely poetic: cat’s claw, stevia, goldenseal, andrographis—a virtual herbarium of desperation.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
• Warner is simply a garden center and herbarium now, and disappointingly welcoming.
  — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2017
• To that end, Kuntz has created the nonprofit herbarium Canndor, which focuses on documenting and preserving cannabis diversity.
  — Marcus Crowder, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• Website Open seasonally from May through October, this botanical garden is known not only for its lush flowers, but also for its comprehensive herbarium, which draws botanical enthusiasts from all around.
  — Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2021
• Despite this, many algal herbarium collections are underused and underfunded.
  — Annie Roth, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
• Edinburgh’s herbarium carpology – plant collection – is 3 million specimens strong and counting.
  — Barbara Hall, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2021
• His vision for the botanical garden is to create plant research facilities, which would include a herbarium, tissue culture facilities, a nursery and greenhouses complemented by a library and computer/internet accessibility.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 11 July 2018

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024