Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The branch of herpetology that deals with snakes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The zoölogical study of serpents. Also, less properly, ophidology.
Wiktionary
- n. biology The study of snakes, a branch of herpetology.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ὄφις (ophis, "serpent, snake") + λόγος (logos, "knowledge"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek ophis, snake + -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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