Definitions
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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