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US
/məˈnædʒɝi/
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[ UK /mənˈædʒjəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /mənˈædʒjəɹˌi/ ]
NOUN
- a collection of live animals for study or display
- the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
How To Use menagerie In A Sentence
- The latest addition to the museum's menagerie of dinosaurs - a cast of a full-size triceratops skeleton, ready for action.
- I have a feeling from a half remembered lecture from a zillion years ago, that Rossetti used to slide naked down the bannisters, and kept a menagerie in his house. Desperate Romantics
- She was wonderful with animals and impossibly tenderhearted; every year she collected a menagerie of injured or abandoned creatures. LORD OF THE SILENT
- The creative part was turning this menagerie into a new piece of music without using anything other than those sounds.
- The menagerie also included giraffes and camels. Times, Sunday Times
- The newfound vents are home to a menagerie of creatures adapted to darkness and crushing water pressures, species that thrive despite waters volcanically heated to near boiling.
- Many are attracted by the prospect of observing a menagerie of erotic freaks and abject ferals.
- Nobody wanted their little princesses to live the life of the great French tragedienne, with her denial of moral constraint, her ridiculous traveling menagerie and her monumental myth-making. Actress, Seductress
- I didn't move, but sat against the mast running my finger along the cut on my foot and looking vacantly at the green-brown wavelets parting before us, the boulders and cedars along the shore and cloud menagerie overhead.
- He portrayed visions of animal menageries, fairies, and devils, derived from fables and mythology.