solarium
from
The 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]
from
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
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