terrarium
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6.5
- noun
- /təˈrɛəriəm/
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terrario
- You can create a beautiful terrarium by using a glass container filled with soil and small plants.
I love glass lanterns or greenhouse terrariums, whatever you want to call it.
- I love glass lanterns or greenhouse terrariums, whatever you want to call it.
- My friend Bodie had it in a terrarium.
- And I also got this, which is a faux plant that you can hang in a little glass like what they call terrarium.
- Once you have a hold of some succulents and cacti, you want to put them to one side and then you're going to want things to create layers in your terrarium.
- So like a terrarium, full wall to wall carpet with like a thick thick shag.
Examples
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Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the water cycle by building a terrarium.
Academic text (2014) -
I'm the one with the terrarium at home.
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So you have yourself a very cool unique terrarium, whatever you want to do with it.
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- You should keep it in a terrarium.
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She, in turn, told me about her terrarium and her pet snakes.
Fiction book (1999) -
Now, please put Petey back in the terrarium and see that he stays there.
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In the corner, we see a miniature worm farm and a large terrarium filled with dirt and worms.
Fiction book (1994) -
We examined a captive animal in a terrarium, where I fed it samples of the plants that grow on the mounds.
Academic text (2003) -
Under Mr. Phelps' supervision, my sister nursed the crow back to health in a glass terrarium, hand-feeding it mealworms and crickets.
Fiction book (1995) -
In our workshop, you will build your own terrarium and learn how to care for it.
Synonyms
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9.3
An enclosed space where people keep and watch live plants or small animals
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Morphology
terrarium = terra (semi-transparent) = terra + arium
The word is formed from the Latin combining form 'terra' (earth) plus the place-forming suffix '-arium'; the components are not common standalone English words but the pattern (e.g. aquarium, planetarium) signals 'place/container for' to many learners.
Etymology
The word terrarium comes from the Latin terra meaning 'earth' and the ending -arium meaning 'place for', the same terra you see in terrain. So a terrarium is literally a 'place for earth', a small glass home for plants or little land animals.