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arkful en · NOUN

Etymology

From ark + -ful.

Meanings

1. (of animals, usually) Enough to fill an ark
   • And there they lived all together, Noah and his arkful of pets, for many weary days, while the waters raged and the winds howled outside, and all the earth was covered fathoms deep out of sight below the waves. 1903, Abbie Farwell Brown, The Curious Book of Birds:
   • "An arkful of nonnative animals and plants have been introduced into the [upper Des Plaines River] basin, often with unintended ecological effects," according to the state Department of Natural Resources publication "Critical Trends in Illinois Ecosystems"(dnr.state.il.us/orep/ctap2/toc1.htm). " 2002 March 1, Harold Henderson, “City File”, in Chicago Reader:

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