vivaria
- plural of vivarium.
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
In almost every room there are attractive little aquaria or vivaria containing living animals and plants.
From Library Work with Children by Hazeltine, Alice Isabel
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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
An incredible number of animals of various kinds, were brought from all quarters, for the entertainment of the people, at an immense expense; and were kept in enclosures called vivaria, till the day of exhibition.
From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Dillaway, Charles K.
Others swore by the gods that wild beasts had been let out of all the vivaria at Bronzebeard's command.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
