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
- Asgard
- as God is my witness (or God be my witness)
- (as) good as gold
- (as) good as new
- as good as ——
- ash
- a shade ——
- ashamed
- ashamedly
- Ashanti
- A-shaped
- (as) happy as a sandboy (or Larry or a clam or vulgar slang a pig in shit)
- (as) happy (or lucky, miserable, etc.) as a bastard on Father's Day
- (as) hard as nails
- ash blond
- ash blonde
- ashcan
- Ashcan School
- Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
- Ashcroft, John David
- ash dieback
- Ashdod
- Ashdown, Sir Paddy
- Ashe, Arthur
- ashen