Definition of "menagerie" []

• A collection of live wild animals on exhibition. (noun)
• An enclosure in which wild animals are kept. (noun)
• A diverse or miscellaneous group. (noun)

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• "If the fishing isn't bizarre enough, there's some random samurai action going on and this whole menagerie is played out to Metallica's "Unforgiven," which, if you watch it a few times will become as hysterical to you as it has to me."
• "The only remaining Baroque-style menagerie is the zoo in Vienna, which has modernized enough to make the animals comfortable without losing its essentially radial layout."
• "The national menagerie is collected by the first physiologists of the time; and it is defective in no description of savage nature."