zoological
/ˌzuːəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l
/ /ˌzəʊəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l/adjective
1Relating to zoology: zoological classification...
- At this time, because the main taxonomic criteria were skeletal, there was no discrepancy between zoological and paleontological classifications.
- Some items have survived in zoological institutes and natural history museums in Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, as well as in the British Museum in London.
- In so doing, measures of physiological variables continue to offer fresh insights into other fields of zoological research, and so bring about new intercourse between physiological-ecology and other disciplines.
1.1Relating to animals: eighty zoological woodcuts...
- An entire cable channel is devoted to animals, and zoological documentaries appear frequently on other networks.
- Displaying exotic people and animals as representatives of a racial and zoological hierarchy, circuses helped popularize scientific theories concerning racial difference.
- In a previous life, I was a camp counsellor and I had heard rumours about some cats (in the jazz rather than the zoological sense) who had set up camp in the trees around campus.
Derivatives
zoologic
- In addition, a number of German zoologic institutions may support Kabul Zoo on a long-term basis, Dr. Jones said.
- He has been instrumental in developing new instructional programs in exotic and wildlife medicine, zoologic medicine, aquatic animal medicine, urban and shelter medicine, and animal rehabilitation.
- Dancing is a universal instinct, a zoologic, a biologic impulse, found in animals as well as in man.
zoologically
- Because of the breadth of content of the book, it should appeal both to botanically and zoologically minded readers, as well as to those explicitly interested in plant - animal interactions.
- Is the threat of avian flu ‘the monster at our door’ or, to use an alternative and zoologically mixed metaphor, a frightened chicken crying wolf?