zoological garden
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of zoological garden
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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It’s home to the largest urban zoological garden in America, a park system nearly 10 times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park — and the city’s last remaining patch of old growth forest.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2020
An ardent sportsman, hunter, and trapper, he has several times circled the globe in his expeditions, and has turned his home at Ardennes into a veritable zoological garden.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2020
These stories depicted the Soviet Government as a sort of zoological garden.
From Time Magazine Archive
He works in the attic of five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoological garden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even these costly establishments were made to minister to the luxury of the times: in the zoological garden pheasants were raised for the royal table.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
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