[vahy-vair-ee-uh
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[-vair-ee-uh] . | a place, such as a laboratory, where live animals or plants are kept under conditions simulating their natural environment, as for research. |
| vi·var·i·um (vī-vâr'ē-əm) n. pl. vi·var·i·ums or vi·var·i·a (-ē-ə) A place, especially an indoor enclosure, for keeping and raising living animals and plants under natural conditions for observation or research. [Latin vīvārium, from neuter of vīvārius, of living creatures, from vīvus, alive; see vivify.] |