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
  • 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 nonprofit also maintains an herbarium of nearly 360 local plants, most of which are used to make dyes.
    — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Transcribing museum and herbarium records is essential to preserve the knowledge gained over the past few centuries.
    — Guest, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2016
  • 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 2019 study found that just a quarter of the specimens from four focal species studied at the herbarium included roots.
    — Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 country’s main herbarium is a single room at the Royal University of Phnom Penh.
    — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Warner is simply a garden center and herbarium now, and disappointingly welcoming.
    — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Despite this, many algal herbarium collections are underused and underfunded.
    — Annie Roth, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Their patterns — incorporating cool blues for Winter and notes of maroon for Autumn — are based on Swedish herbarium specimen sheets that the pair found while antiquing.
    — Caitie Kelly Siobhan Reid Abid Haque Gisela Williams Carla Valdivia Nakatani Rima Suqi, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • The garden is also planning musical performances, nature walks, an herbarium open house, and two professor talks on Tongva basket weaving and the Clarkia plant.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • Think sound healing, herbarium workshops, refreshing facials and light, grounding bodywork sessions that introduce pressure points and the restoration of natural energy flow.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Edinburgh’s herbarium carpology – plant collection – is 3 million specimens strong and counting.
    — Barbara Hall, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2021
  • 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
  • Exhibitions are spread across three levels, including over 800,000 objects and artifacts featured in the galleries, museum area, and onsite herbarium.
    — Riley Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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