Recent Examples on the WebThe hotel, situated in a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains, offers round-the-clock movie screenings, a collection of props and memorabilia in each room, and for lovers of The Birds, an aviary with fifty crows.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2024 The aviaries are placed near enough to one another on the preserve that the burrowing owls can hear each other vocalize.—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024 Once, during a renovation, zookeepers had to move the macaws into a different aviary.—Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023 Most visitors come for Butterfly World, home to a tropical rainforest, brilliant botanical gardens and aviaries teeming with live butterflies and wild birds.—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 Nagging questions about fiscal realities aside, the setting, with its natural surroundings and outdoor aviaries, feeders and fountains, is a kind of spa retreat for hummingbirds.—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024 The ten captive vultures were perched on a tree branch in the aviary.—Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024 Some of the birds, including a pair of toucans, which can be worth thousands of dollars each, escaped from the aviary in August or September when their habitat was being remodeled.—Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023 As well as offering its very own aviary, the hotel is a mere 15-minute walk from the city’s Hortus Botanicus, one of the world’s oldest botanical gardens.—Liam Hess, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Latin aviarium, from avis bird; akin to Greek aetos eagle
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