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A tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals
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vivarium
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A vivarium (Latin, literally for "place of life"; plural: vivaria or vivariums ) is an area, usually enclosed, for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research. Often, a portion of the ecosystem for a particular species is simulated ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "game park," from Latin vivarium "enclosure for live game, park, warren, preserve, fish pond," noun use of neuter singular of vivarius "pertaining to living creatures," from vivus "alive, living" (see vivid ). Meaning "glass bowl for studying living ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Now I use their old vivarium to rear owls in. ▪ The vivarium and aquarium soon followed, with parallel changes in fashion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vivarium \Vi*va"ri*um\, n.; pl. E. Vivariums , L. Vivaria . [L., fr. vivarius belonging to living creatures, fr. vivus alive, living. See Vivid .] A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A place artificially arranged for keeping or raise living animals.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions [also: vivaria (pl)]
Usage examples of vivarium.
The two were ostensibly engaged in checking the mechanical adequacy of the refrigerated vivaria.
You, Agia, and I came out of that great, glass vivarium, and you hired a boat to take us from the island to the shore, and the river was full of nenuphars with blue flowers and shining green leaves.
Vivarium evidently kept us from nulling, or even moving on grav drive, until it leaped.
He had ambitions to restock its basement vivaria with a private collection of captured animals, prime amongst which would be the preadult hamadryad he had yet to catch.
I gathered that the Muls to whom I spoke, who seemed well enough disposed towards me, simply did not know what was meant, in spite of the fact that several of them had been bred in the Nest, in the breeding cases located in certain special vivaria set aside for the purpose.
If ever I, though a Roman bred and born, come to be tried, pray Jupiter there may be either no beasts in the vivaria, or plenty of criminals in the gaol.
Turning around, Lark saw that the glass wallsstretching from floor to a high ceiling-made up giant vivariums holding row after row of wriggling, squirming things.