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exsiccata

exsiccata is the plural of exsiccatum.

Meaning of exsiccatum

Noun

exsiccatum (plural exsiccata)

  1. A dried specimen such as that in a herbarium.
    • The exsiccata quoted are all to be found in the Herbarium of the British Museum.1902, H. W. Pugsley, “The British Capreolate Fumitories”, in The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, volume 40, page 179

Noun

exsiccata (plural exsiccatae)

  1. A set of dried specimens such as that in a herbarium.
    • 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
    • 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 297

Forms of exsiccata

pluralexsiccatae

Questions about exsiccata

What does exsiccata mean?
Exsiccata means a set of dried specimens such as that in a herbarium.
What is exsiccata the plural of?
Exsiccata is the plural of exsiccatum.
What part of speech is exsiccata?
Exsiccata is a noun.
What is the plural of exsiccata?
The plural of exsiccata is exsiccatae.

Words near exsiccata in the dictionary

  1. exsheathment
  2. exsheathments
  3. exship
  4. exsiccant
  5. exsiccants
  6. exsiccata
  7. exsiccatae
  8. exsiccate
  9. exsiccated
  10. exsiccates
  11. exsiccati

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