Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of insects; entomology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Entomology.
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- noun The
scientific study ofinsects .
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Examples
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What would posterity think of us if we had nothing to transmit to it save a complete insectology, an immense history of microscopic animals?
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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It will include (1) useful insects; (2) their products, raw, and in the first transformations; (3) apparatus and instruments used in the preparation of these products; (4) injurious insects and the various processes for destroying them; (5) everything relating to insectology.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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