Noun The sixth grade classroom was a zoo after recess. The supermarket was a real zoo on the night before the storm.
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Noun
The calf's father was euthanized in 2021 due to chronic health issues, says the zoo. Zoe Sottile, CNN, 11 Sep. 2022 Enjoy a spooktacular time at Houston Zoo Boo October is a big month at the second most visited zoo in the U.S. Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 9 Sep. 2022 Chichi lived at Feldman Ecopark, an outdoor zoo in Kharkiv’s northern suburbs that sits just off the front lines of war. Lyric Li, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022 Calves have a gestation period of approximately 15 months, the zoo says. Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022 The zoo has resumed its operations as of Monday afternoon. Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022 That's when the zoo contacted Thera-Paw, a company that makes rehabilitative and assistive products for animals with special needs. Catherine Garcia, The Week, 1 Sep. 2022 The zoo expects the female giraffe (unnamed for now) to be on view with mother Sabra full time going forward. Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022 The status of the zoo was uncertain as Johnson announced with a rap of the gavel that the sale had been made to the state.San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
short for zoological garden
Combining form
borrowed from Greek zōo-, zōio-, combining form from zôion "animal," derivative from the base of zṓō, zṓein (Homeric), zô, zên (Attic) "to be alive, live," going back to Indo-European *gwi̯éh3-(u)- "live" (whence also Tocharian B śāyau "[I] live"), full grade of a stem attested elsewhere with zero grade as *gwih3-u-, whence Latin vīvō, vīvere "to live," Old Church Slavic živǫ, žiti, Old Prussian giwa "(s/he) lives," Latvian dzīvu "(I) live," Sanskrit jīvati "(s/he) lives," Avestan juuaiti
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ZOO | ZOO + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤petting (NAmE) 愛畜動物園VERB + ZOO➤go to, visit去動物園;參觀動物園▸➤escape from從動物園逃出ZOO + NOUN➤animals動物園的動物▸➤keeper (usually zookeeper)動物園動物飼養員PREPOSITION➤at a/the zoo在動物園◇We saw a baby polar bear at the zoo.我們在動物園看到一隻北極熊幼崽。➤in a/the zoo在動物園裏◇These lions were born in the zoo.這些獅子是在動物園出生的。