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Entry 4 senses Webster, 1913

Noah's ark

/nō'-əz ärk/ · No·ah's ark · IPA
01 prop. n. The ship built by Noah according to God's command, as related in the bible.
  1. 1.
    The ship built by Noah according to God's command, as related in the bible.
  2. 2.
    A marine bivalve shell (Arca Noae), which somewhat resembles an ark, or ship, in form.(Zool.)
  3. 3.
    A child's toy, consisting of an ark-shaped box containing many different wooden animals.
  4. 4.
    Anything having a wide and representative assortment of people or objects of a particular class; as, the bar scene in Star Wars was a Noah's Ark of almost every imaginable alien form..(Fig.)