Meaning & use
Vasculum
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A flat, usually metal, cylindrical case used by botanists to carry freshly collected plant specimens in the field.
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The field botanist slid the wilted ferns carefully into her vasculum.
Old vasculums can still be found in university natural history collections.
A note on using this word
From the Latin 'vasculum,' meaning 'small vessel'; largely a historical tool, now mostly replaced by plastic bags and portable presses.
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