Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The branch of entomology that deals with ants.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That branch of entomology which treats of ants.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology The study of ants.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek myrmeco- (“ant”) + -logy (“study (of)”). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To me, an even bigger surprise than this is that field biology field myrmecology to be precise is also opening up to the browser-bound mouse potatoes of the world.”
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“These are observations and anecdotes not about the ants, but about the scientists who study them, about the personal experience of myrmecology.”
“Wilson for his part was strong on myrmecology, on biogeography, and on speciation theory.”
“NSF is the primary source of support in this country for basic science, including myrmecology.”
“Without a solid understanding of male characters and male variation, it's all too easy to misplace male specimens. myrmecology | 3 Comments”
“And if you kill a few million ants this winter, it's OK with Philip Ward, a University of California, Davis, professor who specializes in myrmecology, or ant biology.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘myrmecology’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Sci-tech
cicatrix, senescence, varicose, gestalt, glossolalia, synesthesia, hypolactasia, hemoglobin, ametabolic, eutrophic, eutrophication, cryptid and 35 more...
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career advisor
interesting -ologies, vocations, etc.
Please cite your chosen career if it doesn't have a weirdnet entry.vexillology, eschatology, pomology, phrenology, astacology, balneology, dactology, mycology, selenology, rhinology, hippology, somnology and 43 more...
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Worthy Wordie
words learnt from the Internet
unthink, meme, logophile, netiquette, onomatopoeia, singularity, oed, johnson's dictionary, man friday, lewis carroll, ontology, pro bono and 143 more...
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No Ap-ology
Unusual -ologies
morology, tidology, aerology, tyrology, orology, barology, tocology, doorology, ology, battology, dittology, cacology and 244 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
chamber, chimney, compesce, imperch, ipom�ic, lambency, premier cru, recumbence, simnelcake, succumbence, umbeschew, almacle and 631 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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ologies
technology, acarology, aceology, acology, adenology, aedoeology, aerobiology, aerolithology, aerology, agriology, agrobiology, agrology and 850 more...
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Of Ants and Men
While reading Orwell's non-fiction, I ran across his 68 year-old review of this book, which by focusing on the most lurid aspects piqued my interest, and so I checked it out of my library.
myrmecology, scoliid, stirp, huntress, ingluvial, social stomach, annectent, mycelium, formicary, hypha, fungus garden, hypogeic and 20 more...
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Daily
thaumaturgy, lagniappe, gabble, Cytherean, samizdat, lixiviate, quintal, Rabelaisian, prescind, duende, deglutition, mancinism and 69 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for myrmecology.
yarb Thank you! That looks great. I'm not sure I can commit to the massive (and brilliantly-titled) The Ants just yet. When I've got my own formicary up and running, then I'll get the big book. Dec 11, 2008
Prolagus Also, Journey to the ants by the same authors, a more easily readable (and more train-friendly) version. Recommended. Dec 11, 2008
yarb Thanks triv, I might ask Father X for that. I'd quite like a more up-to-date book than Haskins's. Dec 11, 2008
trivet Yarb, if you're still enjoying all things myrmecological, I'd reccomend The Ants by Bert Hölldobler & Edward O. Wilson. Dec 11, 2008
yarb Last and greatest of all outstanding students of ants has been Wheeler, whose broad interests and intensely investigative outlook, at once both warmly human and accurately scientific, have left no phase of Myrmecology untouched.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 4 Dec 4, 2008
trivet The study of ants. Mar 6, 2007