| 单词 | menagerie |
| 释义 | menagerie (once / 3072 pages) n A menagerie (pronounced muh-NA-juh-ree, with NA as in "national") is a collection of live animals that people visit, study, or keep as pets. If you really want a backyard menagerie of farm animals after visiting the petting zoo, take a long sniff and remember what comes with them. Pet lovers can have a menagerie of cats, dogs, and birds or exotic animals such as snakes, ferrets, and piranhas. Zoos have animal collections like the menagerie of sea creatures in the aquarium and the swinging apes in the jungle menagerie. And a science or medical center may have a menagerie of rats for studying behavior. If you want a menagerie, an ant farm is a good one: lots of animals in a container, always working, and never stinking up the place. WORD FAMILYmenagerie: menageries USAGE EXAMPLESThey will also be able to observe the menagerie of small moons that orbit in or near the edges of the rings. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) Not so Edward Gorey, who was almost as eccentric as his ghoulishly humorous drawings, with their mysterious black-clad ladies, long-suffering children and ominous menageries. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) Cathedral clergy, a profusion of angels, shepherds, Bethlehem townspeople and a menagerie of animals in a retelling of the Nativity. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) 1n a collection of live animals for study or display Hyper accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 2n the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition Syn|Hyper zoo, zoological garden facility, installation a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry |
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