vivarium
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9.3
- noun
- /vɪˈvɛəriəm/
- Specialized
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vivario
- Woman over P.A.: Lieutenant Shine to the vivarium.
Examples
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Now take your animal back to the vivarium and help get the others back in their cages.
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To circumvent this problem, the industrious Brown constructed an elaborate vivarium that housed up to forty-two lizards at a time.
Academic text (1995) -
Take him down to the vivarium and get him started.
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Lieutenant Shine to the vivarium.
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This is the vivarium.
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...the vivarium was built expressly for our pilot performance project, which is affectionately known around here as Project X.
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But come the weekends, almost like a mythical divorced father, I lead skating parties, coach bike riding, and set strategy to visit snake vivariums.
Academic text (1996) -
This is a discussion on humidity levels being too low but leaving substrate more and more soaked within the vivarium and terrarium.
Blog text (26) -
Mice were group-housed in a vivarium (light/dark cycle: 12/12 hr).
Academic text (2017) -
The biologist observed the behavior of the sloths in their vivarium throughout the day.
Synonyms
8
6.0
A large building or cage where people keep many birds
6
6.5
A clear glass container for keeping small plants or land animals indoors
An enclosed container where people keep termites to watch and study them
How Natural
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vivarium comes from the Latin root viv- meaning 'live' and the ending -arium meaning 'place for'. So, a vivarium is a 'place for' living things, like an indoor tank or box where you keep plants or small animals to watch.