mammalogy
noun
Example Sentences
Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021 A few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021 Tests swiftly verified that WAM's taxidermied platypuses did indeed glow, which made Kenny Travouillon, the museum's curator of mammalogy, wonder if there might be other unexpected ultraviolet biofluorescence lurking in their collections. Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2020 Chroman teaches a variety of classes at Santa Ana College and the California Naturalist Program through the UC Agricultural and Natural Resources department and specializes in conservation biology, mammalogy, ornithology and ecology. Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020 Further growth of whale watching is questionable, according to Masao Amano, a marine mammalogy professor at Nagasaki University and advisor to the Japan Whale and Dolphin Watching Council. Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019 Word History
borrowed from French mammalogie, by haplology from *mammalologie, from mammal- (base of New Latin Mammalia or French mammalien "mammalian") + -o- -o- + -logie -logy — more at mammal
Note: Perhaps introduced by the French botanist and zoologist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (Bosc d'Antic) (1759-1828), who wrote the article Mammalogie in Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, tome 14 (Paris, 1803), pp. 12-23. In regard to the term, Bosc comments that "On nomme ainsi, ou mieux, on doit nommer ainsi, car ce mot n'est pas encore généralement reçu, la science qui a pour objet l'étude des animaux à mamelles ou mammifères, c'est-à-dire des quadrupèdes proprement dits." ("We so designate, or rather we should designate—because this word is not yet generally accepted—the science that has as its object the study of animals with nipples, or mammifers [animals with mammary glands], that is, quadrupeds properly speaking.")
1833, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
mammalogy
noun
ma-ˈmal-