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Synonyms for zoology


Grammar : Noun
Spell : zoh-ol-uh-jee
Phonetic Transcription : zoʊˈɒl ə dʒi

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Définition of zoology

Origin :
  • 1660s, from Modern Latin zoologia, from Greek zoion "animal" (see zoo) + -logia "study" (see -logy).
  • As in life science : noun any branch of natural science
  • As in anatomy : noun study of animal, plant structure
Example sentences :
  • Thus, physiology is an abstract science; but zoology is concrete.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) » by John Morley
  • As a matter of fact, zoology is quite as backward as meteorology.
  • Extract from : « Birds of the Indian Hills » by Douglas Dewar
  • Not until 1895 was there question of his appointment to the chair of zoology in Erlangen.
  • Extract from : « At the Deathbed of Darwinism » by Eberhard Dennert
  • Greater than Geology and Zoology, as humanity is above the rocks and animals.
  • Extract from : « How to Become Rich » by William Windsor
  • The whole school studied Botany and Zoology with Mr. Benjamin.
  • Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke
  • He is not only a master of zoology, but has a good command of botany and embryology.
  • Extract from : « The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science » by Various
  • In that house lives my father, Richard Bertgang, professor of zoology.
  • Extract from : « Delusion and Dream » by Wilhelm Jensen
  • But if we accept that proposition, we descend to zoology, and that I do not wish to do.
  • Extract from : « Fair Haven and Foul Strand » by August Strindberg
  • What the palaeontologist does for zoology, the prehistorian does for anthropology.
  • Extract from : « The Evolution of Culture » by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
  • Portrait of Bruce, many of the plates are on Botany and Zoology.
  • Extract from : « Nature Books Popular and Scientific from The Franklin Bookshop, 1910 » by Samuel N. Rhoads

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