zoology
/zuːˈɒlədʒi
/ /zəʊˈɒlədʒi/noun [mass noun]
1The scientific study of the behaviour, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals.But the desire for a deeper understanding of the forest and its creatures led him back to Moscow to study zoology....
- He contributed an immense amount of research in vertebrate and invertebrate zoology and paleontology, and also wrote and lectured on the history of science.
- When the war ended, he was over 50, and instead of returning to mouse genetics he retreated into more general physiology and zoology.
1.1The animal life of a particular area or time: the zoology of Russia’s vast interior...
- While in a kibbutz, I saw a poster advertising a summer's program at Hebrew University in desert zoology, and I enrolled.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from modern Latin zoologia (see zoo-, -logy).
- self-compatible
- self-conceit
- self-conceited
- self-concept
- self-condemnation
- self-condemned
- self-condemning
- self-confessed
- self-confessedly
- self-confession
- self-confessional
- self-confidence
- self-confident
- self-confidently
- self-congratulation
- self-congratulatory
- self-conscious
- self-consciously
- self-consciousness
- self-consistency
- self-consistent
- self-contained
- self-containment
- self-contempt
- self-contemptuous