a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition [总称](兽笼中供展览的)野生动物 ■(figurative)a strange or diverse collection of people or things (喻)无奇不有的一群人(或物);各色齐备的一堆(或一批)东西 some other specimen in the television menagerie. 形形色色电视节目中的另一个样品。
语源
late 17th cent.: from French ménagerie, from ménage (see ménage)