What is "solaria"

Solarium \So*la"ri*um\, n.; pl. Solaria. [L. See Solar, n.]

1. An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.

n. (plural of solarium English)

1. n. a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun [syn: sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunroom, sun lounge]

2. [also: solaria (pl)]

See solarium

Solaria was a fictional human-inhabited planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Robot series. It features mainly in The Naked Sun, to a lesser extent in some later novels.

Solaria is a genus of South American plants in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Allioideae, tribe Gilliesieae, native to Chile and Argentina.

The genus is named in honor of Chilean mathematician Francisco Borja de Solar.

• Solaria atropurpurea (Phil.) Ravenna - Chile ( O'Higgins, Santiago)
• Solaria attenuata Ravenna - Chile, Argentina ( Neuquén)
• Solaria brevicoalita Ravenna - Chile ( Maule)
• Solaria curacavina Ravenna - Chile ( Santiago)
• Solaria cuspidata (Harv. ex Baker) Ravenna - Chile ( Coquimbo)
• Solaria miersioides Phil. - Chile