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
This occupation had become for him so agreeable that later, when in Rome, and forced to live without hunting, he went to vivaria and amphitheatres just to look at beasts known and unknown to him.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
Tigellinus emptied the vivaria of all Italian cities, not excepting the smaller ones.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
The animals, usually kept in different vivaria, or dens, were now, for the greater entertainment of the visitors, placed in one, but equally indeed divided from each other by strong cages protected by iron bars.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
