noun
- plural of vasculum; metal containers used by botanists to collect plant specimens
Usage: botanical; technical
Examples
- The botany students carried their vasculums into the field to collect samples.
- She packed several vasculums with different plant specimens from the forest.
- The researcher’s vasculums were filled with rare ferns and mosses.
- Each team was given two vasculums for the plant identification exercise.
- The old vasculums in the herbarium had been used for decades of fieldwork.