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Meaning
noun an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós Proto-Italic *gʷīwos Latin vīvus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -ārius Latin -ārium Latin vīvāriumbor. English vivarium Borrowed from Latin vīvārium.
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