vasculum

noun

vasculum

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Latin vāsculum (“small vessel”).

1

A container used by botanists to store newly-collected samples.

‘Here,’ Jonas said, and picked up a brass vasculum. Unscrewing the lid he emptied it of herbs […].1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 108:

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