Usually means: Safe habitat for threatened species.
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  1. refugium: Merriam-Webster
  2. refugium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refugium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. refugium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. refugium: Wordnik
  6. refugium: Wiktionary
  7. refugium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. refugium: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. refugium: Dictionary.com
  10. Refugium (disambiguation), Refugium (fishkeeping), Refugium (population biology), Refugium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. refugium: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. refugium: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. refugium: Legal dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

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  1. refugium: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refugium)

noun:  Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
noun:  (aquaculture) A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.

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