zoozoo /zuː/ ●●● S3 noun (plural zoos) [countable] 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINzoo
ExamplesOrigin:
1800-1900 zoological gardenEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- The grocery store was a real zoo today.
- At first, it all looked to me like a human zoo.
- C., which presented this one, a male, as a gift to the zoo and park.
- So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo, checking out their first elephant.
- Some people buy rare or difficult to keep animals as pets and donate them to zoos.
- The directors and actors had spent months in zoos recording the noises made by apes in emotional situations.
- There are four main aims of a zoo.
- These do seem to admit of answers in terms of the working criteria of veterinarians, farm and abattoir inspectors and zoo managers.
- Thursday, the zoo began construction of an Avian Conservation Center.
WORD SETS► Leisure
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► animal
a place, usually in a city, where animals of many kinds are kept so that people can go to look at them → wildlife park· Diseases similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy have recently been reported in several species of domestic and zoo animals.· This amounts to about eighty percent of zoo animals in Britain.· She had the same blank, anxious expression as some zoo animals have.· A titter went around the van, everyone looking at me as if I were some kind of zoo animal.
► keeper· The zoo keeper said that the elephant had always been a calm and gentle animal before.
VERB► go· When he went to the zoo he passed the elephant house quickly lest the irreverent onlooker should make comparisons.· Lions go from Silverdome to zoo.· Then, with a shock, she remembered her promise to go to the zoo.· They knew we went to the zoo, but not that we were in marriage therapy.· We're going to the zoo, remember?· A busload of Democrats went to the zoo Wednesday to visit Binti.· The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me.