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marine museum

n. a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals [syn: aquarium, fish tank]

Usage examples of "marine museum".

Thelma Price was familiar through her numerous television appearances, though she had first made her reputation fifty years ago during the archaeological explosion that had followed the draining of that vast marine museum, the Mediterranean.

Hay said he wanted to visit the Marine Museum in Papeete without a lot of older folks telling him what to look at.

With judicious carpentry he prepared what amounted to an excellent marine museum, and, sailing south to the wealthy resort district of Martin's Beach, anchored at the hotel wharf and reaped a harvest of admission fees.