Definitions

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

  • noun The branch of zoology that deals with eggs, especially birds' eggs.

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  • noun The study of eggs, especially of birds.

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  • noun the branch of zoology that studies eggs (especially birds' eggs and their size, shape, coloration, and number)

Etymologies

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oo- + -logy

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Examples

  • Osgood (1875-1947) gained his reputation as an ornithologist and specialized during the 1890s in oology, but in 1897 he joined the then US Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy (later to become the US Biological Survey) and embarked on significant collecting trips to California and Alaska.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • It was while he was a professor in microbial biology, oology and mollusk genomics at Harvard that he was mysteriously drafted into the military just prior to the Gulf War.

    Raise Really High The Roofbeam, Gassbag 2009

  • It was while he was a professor in microbial biology, oology and mollusk genomics at Harvard that he was mysteriously drafted into the military just prior to the Gulf War.

    Raise Really High The Roofbeam, Gassbag 2009

  • Yet, be assured, reader, that all the 'ologies' hitherto christened oology, ichthyology, ornithology, conchology, palaeodontology, &c., do not furnish such mines of labor as does the Greek language when thoroughly searched.

    Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • - The Apple-oology fun continues, in the best spirit of the old Kremlinology.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2010

  • - The Apple-oology fun continues, in the best spirit of the old Kremlinology.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2010

  • Amateur enthusiasts gathered information about birds but largely through the now outlawed hobby of oology ” egg collecting.

    Hero of Birdland Terborgh, John 2007

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