2006-08-10 11:49:06 · 11 answers · asked by Cool Dude 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
~Botanical Gardens and Aviary were already taken.
2006-08-10 11:54:01 · answer #1 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stems from the Greek word, "zoa", meaning, "animal" - essentially, any living creature. So, a "zoo" describes a collection of animals.
According the OED, it is a truncation of "The Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park", which became used to describe other animal collections. First used as "zoo" in 1847.
zu) [The first three letters of ZOOLOGICAL taken as one syllable.]
1. The Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, London; also extended to similar collections of animals elsewhere.
c1847 MACAULAY in Life & Lett. (1878) II. 216 We treated the Clifton Zoo much too contemptuously. 1886 C. E. PASCOE Lond. To-day iv. (ed. 3) 65 The ‘Zoo’ in time past was as favourite a fashionable resort as Rotten Row.
2006-08-10 20:28:55 · answer #2 · answered by bouncingtigger13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zoo is from the greek word Zoa meaning animals.
2006-08-10 12:01:35 · answer #3 · answered by lace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
zoo is a prefix which comes from greek meaning living creature
2006-08-10 11:56:38 · answer #4 · answered by Smithy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz a zoo has some crazy animals in it.
2006-08-10 12:27:14 · answer #5 · answered by Brooke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
zoo rhymes with poo and animals poo alot so they thought it would be fun to call it something humerous
2006-08-10 12:33:57 · answer #6 · answered by goodalternative 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the word zoology. the study of the nature of life.
2006-08-10 11:53:58 · answer #7 · answered by cowboymanhrsetrnr 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Z-ebras &
O-rangatans
O-h My!!
2006-08-10 13:07:51 · answer #8 · answered by lovely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because animals were being kept there.
2006-08-10 11:52:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe the letters stand for something.... i have no idea what, though!
2006-08-10 11:53:58 · answer #10 · answered by Helen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋