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More than a dozen goats arrived in a park in New York City with a goal.
Ingenious
The fury animals are from a farm in upstate New York. The managers of Riverside Park say goats are an ingenious method of weed removal. They are happy to eat the unwanted plants that can overtake and destroy the parkland.
Ingenious describes a process that uses intelligent new ideas to solve a problem.
It is related to the noun ‘genius’ which means a person of extraordinary intelligence.
Now you know what ingenious means.
*This article has been edited and reprinted from VOA Learning English with permission from Voice of America (VOA) for use in English language materials.