tropical aquarium

noun

: an aquarium kept at a uniform warmth and used especially for tropical fish

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Researchers discovered the protist living on a brain coral in a tropical aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. —

Sean Greene, latimes.com, 23 May 2018

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1948, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tropical aquarium was circa 1948

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