Definitions

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  • adjective Of or relating to animals or animal life.
  • adjective Of or relating to the science of zoology.

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  • adjective Of, or relating to, animals.
  • adjective Of, or relating to, zoology.

Etymologies

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From zoology + -ical

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Examples

  • * More than any other person in zoological writing, Olson has produced an impressive list of scathing quotes and insults.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • * More than any other person in zoological writing, Olson has produced an impressive list of scathing quotes and insults.

    Terror birds Darren Naish 2006

  • This aspect of the study I term zoological geography, and it is that which would be of most interest to the resident or travelling naturalist, as it would give him, in the most direct and compact form, an indication of the numbers and kinds of animals he might expect to meet with. [

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

  • And the old Russian "zoological" nationalism was satisfied by this primitive solution of the problem.

    The Shield Avrahm Yarmolinsky 1895

  • And here -- with "zoological" and "geological" in his mind, but not ready to his tongue -- the small scholar has innocently gone and let out a couple of secrets which ought never to have been divulged in any circumstances:

    What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872

  • "And I observe, moreover, that you are not wearing exactly an English nurse's uniform, and that you have what I might venture to call a zoological badge.

    Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1907

  • If we start with what might be called "zoological" races or strains differing, for instance, in their hair (woolly-haired Africans, straight-haired

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • A female giant panda ate bamboo during her debut appearance at Ueno zoological park in Tokyo on April 1, the park's first day of reopening since the March 11 disaster.

    One Month After the Quake 2011

  • He was calling himself a “zoological anthropologist.”

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • But, she notes that she is currently working on the description of a new reptile from the region, so zoological discovery continues, even in a fairly well-known part of the world.

    A Strange Fish from Yap 2009

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