Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A place, especially an indoor enclosure, for keeping and raising living animals and plants under natural conditions for observation or research.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place where animals of any kind are kept alive in their natural state as far as possible; a vivary; a zoölogical park. A vivarium may be adapted to all kinds of animals; one for special purposes may be called by a particular name. A place for fish, etc., is an aquarium (of which the generic opposite is terrarium); for birds, an aviary; for frogs, a ranarium; for mollnsks, a snailery, etc. A vivarium in popular language takes its name from the animals kept in it, as piggery, hennery, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions
Etymologies
- From Latin vīvārium. (Wiktionary)
- Latin vīvārium, from neuter of vīvārius, of living creatures, from vīvus, alive; see vivify. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Under Hartley T A Kemp's vivarium-like lighting no nuance of the five actors 'brilliantly hyper-real performances is lost.”
“A glass vivarium atop a low wooden cabinet appeared to be the original source of the infestation.”
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“She and Hodges cleared off the top of a sturdy workbench, then each gripped one end of the vivarium with both hands.”
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“She peered through the glass walls of the vivarium at over a dozen intertwined snakes, boasting all sorts of exotic colors and markings.”
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“Watching his step, he wandered over to inspect the snakes in the vivarium.”
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“Back at the spa, she had let Brookston and her partner load the vivarium into the Denali.”
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“She pulled it from its hiding place, then grabbed onto its tail with her free hand before depositing it back into the vivarium, which had a sliding glass lid.”
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“Grunting in effort, they heaved the vivarium off the gurney.”
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“Ray wondered again if anyone could have deliberately added a coral snake to the vivarium in the Cleopatra Room.”
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“A rectangular glass vivarium held at least a dozen snakes of various sizes and colors.”
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