vivarium
/vʌɪˈvɛːrɪəm
/ /vɪˈvɛːrɪəm/noun (plural vivaria /vʌɪˈvɛːrɪə/ /vɪˈvɛːrɪə/)
An enclosure, container, or structure adapted or prepared for keeping animals under semi-natural conditions for observation or study or as pets; an aquarium or terrarium.Because there was no temperature control in the vivarium the animal would have suffered distress as its body heat decreased....
- In most research settings, observers sit in the dark watching an illuminated vivarium, peer through gauzy curtains, or observe by means of remote video surveillance.
- Each individual, in its own compartment of a large vivarium behaves like a dominant, selecting high perches and courting when a female is introduced.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin, literally 'warren, fish pond', from vivus 'living', from vivere 'to live'.
Rhymes
- hardenability
- hardenable
- hardened
- hardened steel
- hardener
- hardening of the arteries
- hardening-on
- hardening skin
- harden something off
- Harderian gland
- hard error
- hard-faced
- hard facing
- hardfast
- hard-favored
- hard-favoured
- hard-featured
- hard feeling
- hard feelings
- hard fern
- hard fescue
- hard finish
- hard finishing
- hardfish
- hard fist