| 释义 |
zoologize, v.|zəʊˈɒlədʒaɪz|
[f. zoology or zoologist: see -ize.]
1. intr. To study zoology practically; to seek and examine animals zoologically. (Cf. botanize.)
1861Geikie E. Forbes ix. 267 He had botanized and zoologized..from the Shetlands to the Channel Isles. 1890Romanes in Life & Lett. (1896) 256, I have just heard that Charles Lister..has died of fever in Brazil, where he was zoologising.
2. trans. To study, explore, or treat zoologically.
1865Kingsley Herew. i, Not to him, as to us, a world..circumscribed, mapped, botanised, zoologised.
Hence zoˈologizing vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1815[see entomologize v.]. 1867Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1885) III. 20 Giving up zoologising for the present. 1876Smiles Sc. Natur. xiv. 290 On a zoologising excursion. |