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- noun Plural form of
vivarium .
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Examples
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Microcosm is a new kind of event that brings enthusiasts together through the common bond of nurturing life within glass enclosures, from aquaria to vivaria, greenhouses and Wardian cases.
Aggressive mimicry 2009
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Microcosm is a new kind of event that brings enthusiasts together through the common bond of nurturing life within glass enclosures, from aquaria to vivaria, greenhouses and Wardian cases.
A year from now 2009
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Dendrobatids and naturalistic vivaria go together like, I dunno, lobster and butter.
Zoos and Flies 2008
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When now he had stood there not many minutes, one of the doors of the vivaria was suddenly thrown back, and bounding forth with a roar that seemed to shake the walls of the theatre, a lion of huge dimensions leaped upon the arena.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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Frequently little yellow silken cocoons are found in vivaria where cabbage-worms are kept; these are cocoons of a parasite (braconid) that infests the worm.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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But the observer, the lover of Nature, was wanting; and the whole world was ransacked merely to consign its living tenants to the _vivaria_, and thence to the fatal arena of the amphitheatre.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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[20] Or _Vivaria_, so called from the numerous _vivaria_, or fish ponds, in that region
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In almost every room there are attractive little aquaria or vivaria containing living animals and plants.
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There was even some truth in this; for in certain places elephants, at sight of the approaching fire, had burst the vivaria, and, gaining their freedom, rushed away from the fire in wild fright, destroying everything before them like a tempest.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906
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Others swore by the gods that wild beasts had been let out of all the _vivaria_ at Bronze-beard's command.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906
chained_bear commented on the word vivaria
"Even fish were bred in pools called vivaria, and edible frogs' bones have been found at Roman sites in York and Silchester."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 20
January 6, 2017