ranarium

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  1. A collection of live frogs; a place where frogs are kept alive, to study their transformations, for vivisection in physiological experiments, etc. The institute also contains a large room full of rabbits and guinea-pigs, for which a little lawn is provided in summer. It also possesses a ranarium, in which are 700 frogs, divided into thirty-one departments, to prevent the spread of the frog disease. Lancet, No. 3426, p. 862.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin rana, frog (see Rana), + -arium.
 

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