verminologyn.
rare.
The science of vermin.
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verminology1830
1830 Kitto in Eadie Life (1857) vi. 184 On removing some clothes..one day, I found one [scorpion],..and not being sufficiently acquainted with verminology to recognise it, I felt no alarm.
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