Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.
  • noun The animal life of a particular area or period.
  • noun The characteristics of a particular animal group or category.
  • noun A book or scholarly work on zoology.

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  • noun that part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
  • noun a treatise on this science.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōon, "animal") + λόγος (logos, "knowledge")

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  • Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_

    Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood

  • For the purpose of the present discourse, however, I shall recognise none of these titles save the last, which I shall employ as the equivalent of botanist, and I shall use the term zoology as denoting the whole doctrine of animal life, in contradistinction to botany, which signifies the whole doctrine of vegetable life.

    Essays 2007

  • For the purpose of the present discourse, however, I shall recognise none of these titles save the last, which I shall employ as the equivalent of botanist, and I shall use the term zoology as denoting the whole doctrine of animal life, in contradistinction to botany, which signifies the whole doctrine of vegetable life.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • For the purposes of the present discourse, however, I shall recognise none of these titles save the last, which I shall employ as the equivalent of botanist, and I shall use the term zoology as denoting the whole doctrine of animal life, in contradistinction to botany, which signifies the whole doctrine of vegetable life.

    Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • But I have degrees in zoology and 12 years 'experience handling animals.

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  • My college zoology is forty years past. but I remember a Roberts or Robertsons natural law that applies to all mammals.

    My wife and I disagree on how deer in the south are small compared to the deer up in the north. 2009

  • My college zoology is forty years past. but I remember a Roberts or Robertsons natural law that applies to all mammals.

    My wife and I disagree on how deer in the south are small compared to the deer up in the north. 2009

  • She holds a honors bachelor of Science degree from University of Toronto, specializing in zoology and behavior.

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  • "Costly signal" theory is very common in zoology and biology/evolutionary theory.

    Is "Costly Signal" Such an Obscure Concept? 2008

  • "Costly signal" theory is very common in zoology and biology/evolutionary theory.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

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