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
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
It has fine monuments, conservatories, the only zoological garden in the city, and the collections of the Academy of Sciences.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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