solaria

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solaria - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Solarium \So*la"ri*um\, n.; pl. Solaria. [L. See Solar, n.]
     1. An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an
        apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern
        times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for
        convalescents.
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     2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of handsome marine
        spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera.
        The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep
        umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also
        perspective shell.
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