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reptilaria

reptilaria is the plural of reptilarium.

Meaning of reptilarium

Noun

reptilarium (plural reptilariums or reptilaria)

  1. A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising reptiles.
    • […] because she believed with the natives of the district that if a woman killed a snake she would give birth to a monster, she took pains to leave the pests alone, so that the house, being in a region over-run with snakes, was often like a reptilarium.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 208

Questions about reptilaria

What is reptilaria the plural of?
Reptilaria is the plural of reptilarium.

Words near reptilaria in the dictionary

  1. reptatorial
  2. reptatory
  3. reptd.
  4. reptend
  5. reptends
  6. reptilaria
  7. reptilarium
  8. reptilariums
  9. reptilase
  10. reptilase time
  11. reptilase times

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