vermiary
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]vermiary (plural vermiaries)
- A place where worms are raised.
- 1897 April, Paul Devaux, anonymous translator, “Practical Aviculture”, in The Gentleman Farmer, volume 1, number 4, Chicago: Brother Jonathan Publishing Co., translation of original in French, page 322:
- The interior arrangement of the yard includes a dirt-hole, a vermiary, or worm-trap, and several clumps of vegetation intended to furnish shady retreats for the fowls.
- 2017 September 5, Kenneth Peters, Halo: Warfleet – An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68:
- A few service the particular needs of other species, including vermiaries that sustain Lekgolo colonies transplanted from their home on Te.