Menagerie

Noun

 * 1) A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept.
 * 2) * 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
 * In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.
 * 1) A diverse or miscellaneous group.

Thesaurus
Festschrift, ana, anthology, aquarium, body, chrestomathy, collectanea, collection, compilation, corpus, data, florilegium, fund, holdings, library, museum, raw data, treasure, zoo, zoological garden

Etymology
From ménagerie:, derived from ménager:, ménage:. Housekeeping used to include taking care of domestic animals.

Translations

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 * Romanian: menajerie
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 * Spanish: casa de fieras
 * Volapük: nimikonlet


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