Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place for keeping, breeding, or observing living insects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
insectarium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place for keeping living insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place for keeping living
insects .
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Examples
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The long road to this point began more than a decade ago at the Walter Reed insectary, a sort of mosquito hothouse where millions of mosquitoes are bred deep inside a building at the institute's Silver Spring campus.
Volunteers at Walter Reed endure mosquito bites to help find a malaria vaccine Eric Niiler 2010
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Every week or so, he sticks his arm into a screened cage containing more than a hundred mosquitoes in a hot and humid room called the "insectary."
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He was a technician at the government insectary on the outskirts of Savannah.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
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He was a technician at the government insectary on the outskirts of Savannah.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
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The insectary is about the size of a large closet with metal shelves floor to ceiling.
News 2012
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Chickens control aphids and beetles, there are bee hives and a beneficial insectary garden.
SFGate: Top News Stories Carey Sweet 2011
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At Benziger in Sonoma County, Calif., the vehicles run on biofuels, all wastewater is cleaned and recycled, there is an insectary to promote habitat for pest-controlling insects, and bird perches for raptors, owls and bluebirds to keep the rodents in check.
The Seattle Times 2010
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At Benziger in Sonoma County, Calif., the vehicles run on biofuels, all wastewater is cleaned and recycled, there is an insectary to promote habitat for pest-controlling insects, and bird perches for raptors, owls and bluebirds to keep the rodents in check.
The Seattle Times 2010
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At Benziger in Sonoma County, Calif., the vehicles run on biofuels, all wastewater is cleaned and recycled, there is an insectary to promote habitat for pest-controlling insects, and bird perches for raptors, owls and bluebirds to keep the rodents in check.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Island, installation of drip irrigation for native plantings at Capay Open Space Park, insectary hedgerow maintenance at Pacific Star Gardens near Woodland, and checking drip irrigation lines and monitoring Blue Oak survival at Bobcat Ranch near Winters.
YubaNet.com 2010
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