Hypertext Webster Gateway: "solarium"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
solarium
n : a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to
the sun [syn: {sun parlor}, {sun parlour}, {sun porch}, {sunroom},
{sun lounge}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.