vivarium

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: vi=var=i=um

CIDE DICTIONARY

vivarium, n. [L., fr. vivarius belonging to living creatures, fr. vivus alive, living. See Vivid.].

 A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vivarium, n. (pl. vivaria) a place artificially prepared for keeping animals in (nearly) their natural state.

Etymology

L, = warren, fishpond, f. vivus living f. vivere live

ROGET THESAURUS

vivarium

Husbandry

N husbandry, taming, circuration, zoohygiantics, domestication, domesticity, manege, veterinary art, farriery, breeding, pisciculture, menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, bear pit, aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive, hive, aquarium, fishery, duck pond, fish pond, phthisozoics, euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction, neatherd, cowherd, shepherd, grazier, drover, cowkeeper, trainer, breeder, apiarian, apiarist, bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier, horse leech, horse doctor, vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon, cage, hencoop, bird cage, cauf, range, sheepfold, pastoral, bucolic, tame, domestic.