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It's basically a Latin version of the Greek anthology [0], but far less commonly used. I'd imagine it occupies similar territory to anthology in high-dimensional space, though, so seems reasonable for an LLM to pick it up.

0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anthology

I had no clue about anthology’s etymology. Very cool!
Reading this made me realize the Dutch 'bloemlezing' is literally the same word.