noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
petting zoo
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
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Diseases similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy have recently been reported in several species of domestic and zoo animals .
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This amounts to about eighty percent of zoo animals in Britain.
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She had the same blank, anxious expression as some zoo animals have.
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A titter went around the van, everyone looking at me as if I were some kind of zoo animal .
keeper
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The zoo keeper said that the elephant had always been a calm and gentle animal before.
■ VERB
go
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When he went to the zoo he passed the elephant house quickly lest the irreverent onlooker should make comparisons.
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Lions go from Silverdome to zoo .
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Then, with a shock, she remembered her promise to go to the zoo .
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They knew we went to the zoo , but not that we were in marriage therapy.
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We're going to the zoo , remember?
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A busload of Democrats went to the zoo Wednesday to visit Binti.
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The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The grocery store was a real zoo today.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first, it all looked to me like a human zoo .
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C., which presented this one, a male, as a gift to the zoo and park.
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So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo , checking out their first elephant.
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Some people buy rare or difficult to keep animals as pets and donate them to zoos.
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The directors and actors had spent months in zoos recording the noises made by apes in emotional situations.
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There are four main aims of a zoo .
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These do seem to admit of answers in terms of the working criteria of veterinarians, farm and abattoir inspectors and zoo managers.
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Thursday, the zoo began construction of an Avian Conservation Center.