caliology

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  1. That department of ornithology which relates to birds' nests. The extraordinary taste and ability many birds display in this matter, as well as the wide range of their habitudes, furnishes one of the most delightful departments of ornithology, called caliology. Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 227.
  2. In botany, the dynamics of the young cell: juvenescence. J. C. Arthur.

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  1. from Greek καλιά, a dwelling, hut, nest (= Latin cella, a hut, chamber: see cell), + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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