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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The study of birds' eggs; the department of ornithology which treats of the nidification and oviposition of birds, the specific characters of egg-shells, and the classificatory conclusions which may be deduced therefrom. See caliology.
  • noun In a wider sense, the ontogeny of birds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The science of eggs in relation to their coloring, size, shape, and number.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of oology.

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oö- + -logy

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