zoo
IPA: zˈu
noun
- A park where live animals are exhibited.
- (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
- (informal, figuratively) A large and varied collection of something.
- (US, military, slang) The jungle.
- (slang) A zoophile.
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Examples of "zoo" in Sentences
- I saw a ringtail at the zoo.
- The elephants are in the zoo.
- Children love to go to the zoo.
- I'm going to the zoo this week.
- There are fifty bears in the zoo.
- He was the eldest trainer in the zoo.
- Admission to the zoo and the insectarium is free.
- All the animals in the petting zoo are domesticated.
- Animals are often maltreated in zoos, farms or domestic captivity.
- Yann Martel: John, a zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation.
- He had received the cadaver from the Hanover Zoo, where the animal had died.
- Yes, it's -5 degrees, but a lot of the stuff at our zoo is actually indoors.
- The zoo is not too big, the paths are pretty narrow, giving it a very intimate feel.
- So, everyone sing a long please- *We're all going to the Zoo..zoo.. we're all going to the zoo!
- A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech.
- Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails. john: I guess you can say that if a zoo is a jail, then so is civilization a jail for humans.
- Yet while the zoo is a memory for most, the remains of the zoo is still moldering up there near the Canadian border, just waiting for brave souls to explore its cold husk.
- Considering that a zoo is an artificially controlled place and the job of a zoo keeper is to protect its animals, the words * nature* and * natural* don't seem to fit into the equation very well.
- Another interesting place was the Dead City, where Egyptians have been buried for centuries, the designs are glorious and huge some as big as several of our houses put together, the zoo is also great.