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viveiro — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • greenhouse noun A glass or plastic-covered building used to grow plants by trapping heat and sunlight.
  • menagerie noun A collection of wild or exotic animals kept for display, especially historically by wealthy owners as a private forerunner to the modern zoo.
  • nursery noun A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.

Senses

viveiro is used for these senses in English:

  • greenhouse A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
  • menagerie A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.
  • nursery (horticulture) A place where young shrubs, trees, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting, or (more generally) made available for public sale, a garden centre; also (obsolete) a plantation of young trees.
  • vivarium A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.

greenhouse — full definition

  1. noun A glass or plastic-covered building used to grow plants by trapping heat and sunlight.
  2. noun Used in "greenhouse effect" or "greenhouse gas" to describe the trapping of heat in Earth's atmosphere.
  3. verb To grow or nurture something, especially plants, in protected conditions.

menagerie — full definition

  1. noun A collection of wild or exotic animals kept for display, especially historically by wealthy owners as a private forerunner to the modern zoo.
  2. noun A varied, mixed group of people or things.

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