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
- inappreciably
- inappreciation
- inappreciative
- inappropriate
- inappropriately
- inappropriateness
- inapt
- inaptitude
- inaptly
- self-excited
- self-executing
- self-existent
- self-explanatory
- self-expression
- self-expressive
- self-faced
- self-feeder
- self-feeding
- self-fertile
- self-fertilisation
- self-fertility
- self-fertilization
- self-fertilized
- self-fertilizing
- self-financed