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# zoo

«zoo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place where wild animals are kept so that people can…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (zoo, zoos)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A zoo is a place where wild animals are kept so that people can see them and learn about them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#m1)

2) Good zoos help rare animals by breeding them and keeping them safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#m2)

3) In speech, «a zoo» means a very busy, noisy place: «The classroom was a zoo». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a setting; animals and visitors at the zoo are counted, tickets to the zoo are bought (tickets × price), animals' food per day. In science: animals, habitats, endangered species, keepers who feed and care for them. In everyday life: school trips to the zoo, a petting zoo with farm animals. Phrases: «at the zoo», «a trip to the zoo», «petting zoo», «zookeeper».

### examples

- The zoo has 12 lions and 8 tigers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x1)
- 240 people visited the zoo on Monday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x2)
- A ticket to the zoo costs $9. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x3)
- How many animals are in the zoo? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x4)
- We saw the penguins being fed at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x5)
- Zoos help to protect animals that are in danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x6)
- Please don't feed the animals at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x7)
- The house was a zoo with five children and two dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x8)
- So when the largest elephant in the Zoo was carried off by a dragon, the papers gave up pretending--and put ALARMING PLAGUE OF DRAGONS at the top of the paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a zoo». Short for «zoological garden». Maths: a word of the story; it carries no clue for the operation. The numbers belong to the animals, visitors or tickets. Trap: adults' and children's tickets may cost different amounts.

### In the corpora

- [Many zoos turn elephant dung into compost for gardens, and in some countries it is even made into paper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/11/)
- [Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branches every night, or of straw in a zoo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/14/)
- [Wild orangutans hold big leaves over their heads like umbrellas, and zoo orangutans use sacks and blankets the same way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/6/)
- [Great apes do not swim naturally and can drown, so zoos use water moats around ape islands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/11/)
- [Zoos keep rescue groups of rare frogs in clean rooms until the wild is safe again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «zoo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.