terrarium

Definition of terrariumnext
as in aquarium
a glass or plastic box that is used for growing plants or keeping small animals indoors

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Recent Examples of terrarium The store held raffles where people could win a private shopping experience, free entry to a terrarium plant class, and Monstera’s Books gift cards. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Dec. 2025 Poppy and Lilah spend multiple hours together daily, however Smtih keeps the snake in her terrarium in the days after she’s eaten. Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025 Recently, Autumn entered the room in her home, which contains Matilda's heated habitat, and found Tsunami casually sitting in the middle of the lizard's terrarium. Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025 One female Hunan mountain snake was pregnant and temporarily kept in a laboratory terrarium, the study said. Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for terrarium
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Noun
  • The 72-year-old Packard, an oceanographer, is the daughter of technology magnate David Packard, the aquarium’s founding benefactor.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • One of his interests is fishing, for example, so the children went on a field trip to an aquarium.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Then for the main event, fans get to see their favorite wrestlers locked inside a steel cage.
    Adam Davidson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Inside the fence line were cranes, fuel tanks, and spools of cable; a crew was splicing together cages of rebar to sink into the ground.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026

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“Terrarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terrarium. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.

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