Meaning

2 senses
  1. An enclosure wherein small animals are displayed, usually with some plants, in a naturalistic setting.

    Terrarium

    террариумterrarium

    тера́рійterárij, тера́ріумterárium

  2. A partially enclosed glass container for displaying plants, especially plants that need high humidity.

    Terrarium

    палюда́рійpaljudárij, палюда́ріумpaljudárium

More definitions
  • a vivarium in which selected living plants are kept and observed

Examples

6 sentences
  1. He put the spider in a terrarium.

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  2. Ziri put the snake back into the terrarium.

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  3. In the terrarium lived a millipede with a shiny carapace.

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  4. I have a tarantula in a small terrarium, and I feed it cockroaches.

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  5. It's from Portal, the one from Terraria is a reference.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
enclosure for displaying small animals:
glass container for displaying plants:
Русский
By meaning 1
enclosure for displaying small animals:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
enclosure for displaying small animals:

Origin

From Latin terra (“earth”) + -arium, by analogy with aquarium.

From Latin terra (“earth”) + -arium, by analogy with aquarium.

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Forms

plural: terrariums / terraria
Singularterrarium
Pluralterrariums / terraria

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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