-arium (s), -aria (pl)

1. A room or porch exposed by the sun.
2. A room designed for solar therapy or heliotherapy (medical treatment with the sun's rays).
3. A day, or recreational room, for patients; often used as a waiting area for family or visitors.

A chamber beneath the Roman arena, where bodies of dead gladiators, and other dead bodies, were dragged and later disposed of by burial or whatever was decided by Roman officials.

The system of stercome-containing tubes of certain Sarcodina.

The handkerchief upon which the Savior, Jesus Christ, is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion.

In the Roman Catholic Church, another term for Veronica's Veil which is a legendary Catholic Church relic. The faithful believe that Veronica from Jerusalem encountered Jesus along the Via Dolorosa on the way to Calvary. When she paused to wipe the sweat off his face with her veil, his image was imprinted on the cloth. The event is commemorated by one of the Stations of the Cross. According to legend, Veronica later traveled to Rome to present the cloth to the Roman Emperor Tiberius. It had miraculous properties, including the quenching of thirst, restoring blindness, and sometimes even raising the dead.

1. A small enclosure or closed container in which selected living plants and sometimes a vivarium for small land animals; such as, turtles and lizards, are kept and observed in a simulated natural environment; as distinguished from an aquarium for aquatic animals.
2. A sealed glass container often in the shape of a globe that is used for growing ornamental plants that require a high level of humidity.
3. From Latin terra "earth" and modeled on aquarium; because, as stated above, it was designed for land animals.

1. A container for perfumed oil used in Hellenistic times.

They were often of ceramic or glass and found in tombs.

2. A term commonly applied to ancient Roman toilet bottles; however, it appears that the term was "invented" in the 19th century, on analogy with unguentarius ("perfume seller") and similar Latin words that the Romans used in connection with perfumes.

A game in which letters are formed into words; also, one in which a word is changed into others by re-arrangement of its letters.

1. The part of the ovary in some invertebrates that produces yolk-filled cells providing nourishment to the developing eggs.
2. That part of the ovary in certain flatworms that produces yolk filled cells.

1. An indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions.
2. A transparent enclosure in which small living animals are kept so that their behavior can be studied.
3. A place in which animals are housed, particularly animals used in medical research.

A colony of animals.