Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place, such as an enclosure or facility, used for keeping living animals for observation or research.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where animals of any kind are kept alive in their natural state as far as possible; a vivary; a zoölogical park.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place
artificially arranged forkeeping orraising livinganimals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Under Hartley T A Kemp's vivarium-like lighting no nuance of the five actors 'brilliantly hyper-real performances is lost.
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Watching his step, he wandered over to inspect the snakes in the vivarium.
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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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Grunting in effort, they heaved the vivarium off the gurney.
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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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A glass vivarium atop a low wooden cabinet appeared to be the original source of the infestation.
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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 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 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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