menagerie
noun
a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.
menageries
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pluralof menagerie.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Wealthy rulers throughout history, from Carlos III of Spain to Moctezuma, the ruler of the Aztec Empire, have kept menageries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
It is these boastful collections of animals, these autocratic menageries, from which the modern zoo, with its didactic plaques and $15 hot dogs, springs.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, both countries launched veritable menageries aboard rockets, although none both reached orbit and survived the journey before 1960’s Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 12, 2021
From his collection he supplies museums and menageries with beasts, wild and domestic, and schools and lyceums with animal skeletons, skins, and other objects for the study of natural history.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2020
But also from travelling shows and menageries, and from animals that died in the Tower he was supplied.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
