terrarium
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There was a basketball court, wading pools, a library, a terrarium, chess tables, a gym, bicycles and a snack room filled entirely with products from Feastables, Donaldson’s snack company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
She wasn't interested to know that Clyde, appraising us from his teeny terrarium, was a near-doppelgänger for the 16 1/2-year-old companion I had lost a few months before.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
Earth isn’t an isolated terrarium, and life upon it has been as influenced by impacts and near misses as by continental drift.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
They share a terrarium in a fifth grade classroom in Florida, and when Leo realizes he’s reaching the end of his reptilian life span, he has a sudden urge to escape and see the world.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
The light cast an eerie glow up onto the windows of the terrarium that reminded me of pictures of the northern lights.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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Just think of sealed terraria, in which miniature plant ecosystems thrive by themselves for decades with no outside intervention.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 6, 2019
But perhaps such terraria could be maintained by “bush robots” that live in the soil, constantly monitoring its biochemistry and microbiology and adjusting the environment microbe by microbe.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2016
Transformed by new sciences and new ways to live, most "spacers" find the mother planet an embarrassment; 92% of its mammal species are endangered or live in "off-planet terraria".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
On my way out I might stop by the terraria to look at some shiny frogs glazed bright, bright green, or yellow and deep blue, or brown and pale green.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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"They're quite territorial so we keep them in their own terrariums and we keep the room very humid to mimic their natural environment," Prof Woods explained.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
To do so, the researchers fed the terrariums with half a teaspoon of fruit flies and recorded their hunting.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
On another, she organized a workshop in a tent outside the dorms, helping children plant terrariums.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
Unweaned kittens rest inside terrariums at the Best Friends Animal Society shelter in April 2017 in Mission Hills, California.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2024
Lizard houses, as previously noted, were as much like terrariums as they could be without compromising privacy; they were one of the few animals who kept spare sheets of glass everywhere.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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