单词 | vivarium |
释义 | vivariumn. 1. A place where living animals, esp. fish, are maintained or preserved for food; a fish-pond or fish-pool; = vivary n. 2. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank fish-poolc950 fish-housec1000 viverc1330 stew1387 piscinaa1398 piscinea1400 fishpondc1440 trunk1440 moat1463 stagnec1470 servatorya1475 viviera1500 fish-stew1552 vivarium1600 shut1605 fish-stove1615 keep1617 estang1628 vivarya1634 nursery1772 preserve1849 whalerya1880 fish tank1957 1600 P. Holland tr. J. B. Marlianus Svmmary Topogr. Rome v. xx, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1389 Whereupon it commeth, that those places or parkes which are set out and appointed for feeding of Deere, we use to call Vivaria. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. i. xxvi. 328 The face of the Sea is our Traffique, and the bowels of the Sea is our Vivarium, a place for fish to feed us. 1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) ii. 80 In some of the Hebrides, there are large pools for the preservation of sea-fishes, hollowed out of the solid rock... Great numbers of cod-fishes are kept in these vivaria. 1888 D. Beveridge Between Ochils & Forth v. 80 The dry hollow..in former days served the monks as a vivarium, or fish-pool. 2. a. A place or enclosure, a piece of ground or stretch of water, specially adapted or prepared for the keeping of living animals under their normal conditions, either as objects of interest or for the purpose of scientific study; frequently in later use, an aquarium; = vivary n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > zoo > [noun] vivarya1631 vivariumc1660 menagerie1676 zoological garden1827 zoological1831 zoo1835 park1887 paradise1900 petting zoo1965 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > zoo > [noun] > aquarium vivarium1853 aquarium1854 tank1854 whalerya1880 oceanarium1938 seaquarium1955 marineland1963 dolphinarium1969 c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 251 There is also adjoyning to it a Vivarium for Estriges, Peacoks, Swanns, Cranes, &c. 1684 tr. 'Le Sieur Combes' Hist. Explic. Versailles 87 In the Vivarium are seen many kinds of Animals which have been caused to be brought from Forein Countries. 1853 Athenæum 28 May The new Fish house..has received the somewhat curious title of the ‘Marine Vivarium’. 1853 Guide Zool. Gard. Aquatic Vivarium. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life xiv. 297 Forming a kind of natural museum or vivarium in which ancient types..had been saved from..destruction. 1900 L. Huxley Life T. H. Huxley I. xii. 155 The bay was calm and suitable both for the dredge and for keeping up a vivarium. b. A glass bowl, case, etc., in which fish or other aquatic animals are kept, esp. for purposes of scientific study; = vivary n. 1b. Now usually = terrarium n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > glass case case1600 bell1651 glass-bell1651 bell-glass1737 fernery1840 Wardian case1842 vivarium1853 terrarium1931 1853 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 13 June (1954) II. 103 I was at the Zoological gardens..and saw..the marine queerities in the Vivarium. 1855 Zoologist 13 4849 Those who would view vivariums merely as interesting subjects for their drawing-room windows. 1856 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. 396 We set out for Ilfracombe with our hamper of glass jars, which we meant for our sea-side vivarium. 1858 H. N. Humphreys Butterfly Vivarium i. 2 I am about to describe a novel kind of Vivarium, by means of which another and very distinct class of animal life—that of the ‘world of insects’—may be made to exhibit its wonders. 1890 Duke of Argyll in Mem. (1906) II. xlv. 464 Your old vivarium is still standing in its old place. 1914 W. P. Westell Boys' Bk. Pets xvi. 217 Another type of vivarium may be constructed on similar lines to the rectangular aquarium, only making it a few inches deeper. 1978 Nature 19 Oct. 646/2 Lizards were housed in vivaria in a constant temperature room. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1600 |
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