solarium

3 definitions found

solarium - 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

solarium - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  solarium
      n 1: a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure
           to the sun [syn: sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch,
           sunporch, sunroom, sun lounge, solarium]

solarium - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "solarium":
     best room, drawing room, foreroom, front room, gallery, lanai,
     living room, parlor, patio, piazza, porch, salon, saloon,
     sitting room, sleeping porch, stoop, sun parlor, sun porch,
     sunroom, veranda