zoo

[ zoo ]

/ zu /

noun, plural zoos.

Also called zoological garden. a parklike area in which live animals are kept in cages or large enclosures for public exhibition.

Informal. a place, activity, or group marked by chaos or unrestrained behavior.

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Origin of zoo

First recorded in 1840–50; first two syllables of zoological garden taken as one syllable

Words nearby zoo

zonular cataract, zonular space, zonule, zonulitis, zonulolysis, zoo, zoobiotic, zoochem., zoochemistry, zoochlorella, zoochore

Definition for zoo (2 of 2)

zoo-

a combining form meaning “living being,” “animal,” used in the formation of compound words: zoometry; zooplankton.

Also especially before a vowel, zo-.

Origin of zoo-

combining form representing Greek zôion animal

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Example sentences from the Web for zoo

Despite his casual appearance, he was anxious to get going, like a dad waiting on dithering kids at the zoo.
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Many physicists struggled to accept that so many elementary particles could exist in the universe, in what had become known as the “particle zoo.”
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Triplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week.
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She worked with wildlife as a volunteer in Peru and the Galapagos; she worked with elephants in Thailand, at a zoo in Australia.
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The zoo is blessed with multiple wallabies and was happy to oblige.
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In Atlanta, though, you can spend the night in a zoo with real live animals.
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Even before it was unveiled, critics were attacking the 21st-century version of the offensive original “zoo.”
Norway’s Controversial Human Zoo Is Back|Nina Strochlic|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A good circus or "zoo" may be worked out in a variety of materials.
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About a year ago Mr. and Mrs. M. were away for six weeks, and left the boa in charge of a keeper at the Zoo.
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For this reason most of the tigers in a zoo are much smaller than those tigers that grow up in the jungle.
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She's overstocked this Zoo a dozen times already with her jealous freaks, and Jupiter hasn't reformed once.
Olympian Nights|John Kendrick Bangs
Under the great blazing sign of the Zoo entrance the capture was accomplished.
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British Dictionary definitions for zoo (1 of 2)

zoo

/ (zuː) /

noun plural zoos

a place where live animals are kept, studied, bred, and exhibited to the publicFormal term: zoological garden

Word Origin for zoo

C19: shortened from zoological gardens (originally applied to those in London)

British Dictionary definitions for zoo (2 of 2)

zoo-

before a vowel zo-

combining form

indicating animalszooplankton

Word Origin for zoo-

from Greek zōion animal

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Medical definitions for zoo

zoo-

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Animal; animal kingdom:zoonosis.

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zoo

see it's a zoo.

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