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Definition of Aviary
1. Noun. A building where birds are kept.
Definition of Aviary
1. n. A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.
Definition of Aviary
1. Noun. A house, enclosure, large cage, or other place for keeping birds confined; a birdhouse. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
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Definition of Aviary
1. a large enclosure for live birds [n -ARIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aviary
Literary usage of Aviary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park by New York Zoological Park, William Temple Hornaday, New York Zoological Society (1911)
"THE GOOSE aviary, No. 3. There are no birds which take more kindly to captivity,
or which better repay their keep and their keepers, than the ducks, geese, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"aviary (from Lat. avis, a bird), called by older writers *' volary," a structure
in which birds arc kept in a state of captivity. While the habit of keeping ..."
3. Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park, as Far as Completed by William Temple Hornaday, New York Zoological Society, New York (N.Y.). Zoological Park (1900)
"THE DUCKS' aviary, NO. 3. There are no birds which take more kindly to captivity,
or which better repay their keep and their keepers, than the clucks, ..."
4. History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient by William Hickling Prescott (1843)
"One of these was an immense aviary, in which birds of splendid plumage were
assembled from all parts of the empire. Here was the scarlet cardinal, ..."
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