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a box shaped as a book is called a solander and the plant abeeehiinrstt was hebenstreitia many thanks for your help may be of some use for a future quiz
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes, indeed...thanks for 'solander', Stella. The box was named after the Swedish botanist D C Solander (1736 - 1782), who made such boxes to keep his plant samples in.
Personally, I still prefer my version...'bibliopyx'! It's rather like 'hoover' and 'vacuum-cleaner', where the former originally referred to a specific version of the latter, because of the creator's name.