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wormery

British  
/ ˈwɜːmərɪ /

noun

  1. a piece of apparatus, having a glass side or sides, in which worms are kept for study

  2. a container in which worms are kept, esp one in which they consume household waste and convert it into compost

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That’s the driveway where someone once discarded an entire wormery: four stories of perforated plastic through which my compost worms now romp happily among apple peelings.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

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