armarium

plural armaria

1. Synonym of ambry (“cupboard or storage area”).

   The armarium was generally placed in the atrium of the house.

   1870, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 136

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   Professor Clark also quotes from the Customs of the Augustinian Order, which required that the armarium be "lined inside with wood, that the damp of the walls may not moisten or stain the books," […]

   1995, The New Yorker, volume 71, numbers 15-22, page 88

   An earlier example of an armarium (AD 424—450) appears in a representation of St Lawrence in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, for which see Kitzinger, fig. 95.

   1997, Jocelyn Penny Small, Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity

   You can see evidence of this activity: in the south wall is the armarium where the monks kept their books.

   1998, Jean-Pierre Mouton, Mont-Saint-Michel: A Monk Talks about His Abbey, page 40

   Synonyms: ambry

2. biologyproventriculus

   Anteriorly it bears an armarium and posteriosly^([sic]) a stomodaeal valve.

   1991, H.S. Bhamrah, Introduction to Arthropoda, page 169

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   The proventriculus of both the Blattaria and Isoptera conforms to the basic orthopteran plan and consists of an anterior armarium and the posterior stomodaeal valve; the armarium tapers posteriorly as it merges with the narrow valve.

   1963, Memoir - Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, →OCLC

   The proventriculi of both Arenivaga bolliana and Hypercomps fieberi appear to lack the anterior dental belt of the armarium; otherwise, they are dissimilar.

   1964, F. A. McKittrick, Evolutionary Studies of Cockroaches, page 78

   The sclerotized portion of the proventriculus (armarium) has six cuticular folds each armed with a tooth for crushing food and a pulvillus bearing hairs which forms a fine filter.

   1975, Lucy D. Leake, Comparative Histology: An Introduction to the Microscopic Structure of Animals