Meanings
nounlarvarium (plural larvaria)
plural larvaria
- biologyA place for raising larvae.
At the end of his so remote, so near, 1884 summer Van, before leaving Ardis, was to make a visit of adieu to Ada's larvarium.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle1 more example
Such a range of shelving, facing north, forms an excellent larvarium; the winds will blow about your larvæ and they will be reared in a state which closely approaches the natural one.
1943, Philip Bertram Murray Allan, Talking of Moths, page 318
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with larvarium
herbariumfusariumimaginariumvivariumsamariumcolumbariumseaquariumoceanariumarmamentariumacarinariumallylsamariumantiquariumaquaterrariumargentarium-ariumascidiariumaviculariumbalsamariumbullariumbunariumcaldariumcalendariumcalidariumcalvarium
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Chicago
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