VIVARIUM (vivaria)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: vivaria   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vivarium mean? 

• VIVARIUM (noun)
  The noun VIVARIUM has 1 sense:

1. an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions

  Familiarity information: VIVARIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIVARIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("vivarium" is a kind of...):

enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vivarium"):

aquarium; fish tank; marine museum (a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals)

terrarium (a vivarium in which selected living plants are kept and observed)