megazooとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

megazoo (複数形 megazoos)

1. A very large zoo.
   • 1983, Alan Howard Brush, George Alfred Clark, Perspectives in Ornithology (page 32)

     […] some nature reserves will inevitably become megazoos or zooparks.

   • 1993, J. S. Hutchinson, Controlling Reproduction (page 6)

     It may be necessary to reorganize some species of animals into new populations, some in captivity, some in the wild, with the animals being managed as a whole as a megazoo.

   • 2001, Vernon N. Kisling, Zoo and Aquarium History

     Zoos are returning to the integrated, environmental animal parks of ancient Mesopotamia, but in a more sophisticated manner. And at the same time, wild nature itself is becoming a megazoo — just a different kind of captivity.