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zoological garden

American  

noun

  1. zoo.


zoological garden British  

noun

  1. the formal term for zoo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of zoological garden

First recorded in 1820–30


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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

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

These stories depicted the Soviet Government as a sort of zoological garden.

From Time Magazine Archive

That belt of wood was a zoological garden stocked with birds and mammals.

From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Hudson Stuck

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