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单词 vivarium
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vivariumn.

Brit. /vʌɪˈvɛːrɪəm/, /vᵻˈvɛːrɪəm/, U.S. /vaɪˈvɛriəm/
Forms: Plural vivaria, also vivariums.
Etymology: Latin vīvārium enclosure for live game, warren, fish-pond, etc., neuter singular of vīvārius, < vīvus alive, living.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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