terrarium

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

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

The American remake of “The Office” transformed the blank environs of an office supplies wholesaler into an adorable terrarium.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

Move plants that require moist soil and high humidity into a terrarium.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

“Why can’t they stay here? You could buy a terrarium from a pet store—and another lizard who can show them how to...do lizard stuff. I could help you look after them.”

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

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

"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

Unweaned kittens rest inside terrariums at the Best Friends Animal Society shelter in April 2017 in Mission Hills, California.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2024

Houseplants bloomed during the environmental movement of the 1970s, when people filled their homes with macramé plant hangers and terrariums.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

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