| 单词 | zoo animal |
| 释义 | > as lemmaszoo animal C1. General attributive, as zoo animal, zoo collection, zoo director, etc. Π 1876 N.-Y. Times 29 June 7/1 We have a large ‘zoo’ collection already secured. There are five of the North American eagles [etc.]. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 24 Dec. 4/1 An African thumbless monkey is among the recent additions to the ‘Zoo’ menagerie. 1931 Fortune Aug. 12/3 The okapi, a kind of giraffe, is the rarest zoo animal. 1955 Times 16 Aug. 4/2 It is not yet known how the zoo budgerigars caught the disease. 1976 A. Davis Television 119 There were zoo programmes and the travelogues of Armand and Michaela Denis. 1984 G. Sandler Baltimore Glimpses Revisited 33 Betsey's art career was the brainchild of zoo director Arthur Watson. 1992 Zoo Life Winter 100/1 Mhorr gazelles are among the nearly 4,000 animals in 100 acres of one of the world's rarest zoo collections. 2013 New Yorker 2 Sept. 28/3 Handling zoo animals this way began in the nineteen-eighties. < as lemmas |
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