0 a large cage (= area surrounded by wire or bars) or closed space in which birds are kept as pets --
The rich man can enjoy the pleasure of a huge aviary.
Something worthy and good—an aviary costing £55,000 in revenue costs alone.
Often one does not like the creatures with which we have to share the aviary.
They do not always keep them in small cages; many of them keep them in aviaries where the birds can fly about for several yards.
Who is to say that the aviary does not constitute as great a menace to the wild bird as the six-inch cage?
I think that the building was called the bird-cage because of its aviary-type top.
Person-to-person transmission of chlamydia psittaci is rare: outbreaks of the disease in humans occur mainly among aviary and quarantine station workers, poultry processors and veterinarians.
The working-man has neither the space nor the cash to enable him to keep an aviary such as a rich man can afford to keep.
