vivarium
noun
a place, such as a laboratory, where live animals or plants are kept under conditions simulating their natural environment, as for research.
vivaria
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pluralof vivarium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Receiving labs are risking the reliability of subsequent experiments — and perhaps even the health of their vivaria.
From Nature ● Jun. 9, 2015
If ever I, though a Roman bred and born, come to be tried, pray Jupiter there may be either no beasts in the vivaria, or plenty of criminals in the gaol.'
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Hundreds of jars and vials, vivaria and insectaries, microscopes, guns, and cameras, with all their details and mysterious inner workings, left no table vacant.
From Jungle Peace by William Beebe
Others swore by the gods that wild beasts had been let out of all the vivaria at Bronze-beard's command.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Once, about sunset, the roar of lions and other beasts reached them from distant vivaria.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
