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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Lamb has worked on the Rose Parade for 52 years, decorating floats with the flowers that bring the fanciful tableaux and myriad menageries to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
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
At these in-game “gyms” and “Poké spots,” Pokémon Go players can pit their monsters against other players’ menageries, or collect items that bolster their creatures’ power.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2016
Animals in menageries are sometimes great enemies to the milliner’s art; giraffes have been known to filch the flowers adorning a bonnet, and we once saw a lady miserably oppressed by monkeys.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
