vasculum

Borrowed from Latin vāsculum (“small vessel”).

vasculum (plural vasculums or vascula)

1. A container used by botanists to store newly-collected samples.
   • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 108:

     ‘Here,’ Jonas said, and picked up a brass vasculum. Unscrewing the lid he emptied it of herbs […] .

From vās (“vessel”) +‎ -culum (neuter diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaːs.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvas.ku.lum]

vāsculum n (genitive vāsculī); second declension

1. a small vessel or container
2. a small beehive
3. (by extension) a seed-capsule or seed-vessel
4. (by extension) the calyx of a fruit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• vāsculārius
• vāscellum
• vāsculāris

• vās
• vāsārium
• vāsātus

• “vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vasculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vasculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.