VIVARIUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: vivaria

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)