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zoological, a.
(zəʊəˈlɒdʒɪkəl, pop. zuːə-)
[f. zoology + -ical; cf. prec.]
a. Pertaining or relating to zoology; belonging or devoted to the scientific study of animals.
1807J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. (ed. 2) I. p. xxvii, Conceiving that the zoological part might admit of some improvements..the author applied to Dr. Shaw of the British Museum. 1815Tweddell's Rem. 190 note, His numerous zoological and botanical works. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. III. 465 Molluscous animals had been placed too high in the zoological scale. 1839Darwin Voy. Beagle vii. 152 We shall..have two zoological provinces strongly contrasted with each other. 1877Coues Fur-Bearing Anim. i. 2 The zoölogical characters by which it is distinguished from other Carnivorous Mammals.
b. Zoological Garden (usually Zoological Gardens), the gardens of the London Zoological Society, situated in Regent's Park, London, in which the society's collection of wild animals is housed (formerly colloquially abbreviated as ‘the Zoological’, subsequently further shortened to ‘the Zoo’); hence gen. a garden or park in which wild animals are kept for public exhibition. Also zoological park.
1829T. Allen (title) A guide to the Zoological Gardens and museum. 1831J. Jekyll Corr. (1894) 279, I..passed three hours with some new foreigners at the Zoological, which is the best lounge of London. 1843Comic Album W 2 b/1 The parrots at the Zoological Gardens. 1854Gosse Aquarium 13 The interesting exhibition opened to the public last year at the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park. 1855Poultry Chron. III. 416 The first annual exhibition of the Hull and East-Riding Poultry Society, took place on Wednesday, June 27th, at the Zoological Gardens, Hull. 1890Burnand Very Much Abr. 122 After which I never gave any buns to the bears at the Zoological. 1899N.Y. Times 9 Nov. 14/3 A splendid stretch of 261 acres of country, that is destined to accommodate one of the finest collections of wild animals in the world, and will be known as the New York Zoological Park, was formally opened..yesterday. 1935Chambers's Encycl. X. 811/1 The Zoological Park of Edinburgh,..one of the most beautiful. 1978Jordan & Ormrod Last Great Wild Beast Show i. 48 Stellingen itself remains the finest example of the use of moated enclosures in zoological parks.
attrib. and comb.1843Hood in Mem. (1860) II. 152 Me, who have no more notion of engineering than a Zoological monkey of driving piles. 1858Househ. Words 18 Dec. 51/1 A whole zoological-garden-full of symptoms constantly making him uncomfortable.
c. transf. (sometimes humorous). Animal.
1855Dickens Holly-Tree i, One of the apartments has a zoological papering on the walls, not so accurately joined but that the elephant occasionally rejoices in a tiger's hind legs and tail, while the lion puts on a trunk and tusks. 1889H. P. Liddon Magnificat iv. 91 Which is the nobler sort of ancestry—the purely zoological, or the spiritual? 1893Harper's Mag. Dec. 39/2 Other strange and zoological sounds.
Hence zoologically |zəʊəˈlɒdʒɪkəlɪ, zuːə-| adv., in a zoological way, in relation to zoology.
1819W. Lawrence Lect. Phys. etc. 249 The representations of all the animals being brought before Adam in the first instance, and subsequently of their being all collected in the ark, if we are to understand them as applied to the living inhabitants of the whole world, are zoologically impossible. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xvii. (1852) 393 This Archipelago [sc. the Galapagos Islands]..is zoologically part of America. 1869A. R. Wallace Malay Archip. I. i. 24 Borneo and New Guinea, as like physically as two distinct countries can be, are zoologically wide as the poles asunder. |