zoology

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  1. noun The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.
  2. noun The animal life of a particular area or period: the zoology of Alaska; the zoology of the Pleistocene.
  3. noun The characteristics of a particular animal group or category: the zoology of mammals.

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  • Alas, the sight of blood disgusted him, and he hated inflicting pain as much as most men hate bearing it, so he began to cultivate new and more interesting hobbies -- zoology, geology, botany -- and without the support or encouragement of his family or his masters at school, Charles continued to pursue my past, even though I constantly tried to dissuade him Give it up, Charles. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • The library contains whatever is best in botany and zoology, and the collections open to the public are very rich. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • The following summer I attended the lectures of Leuckart on zoology, and those of Bronn on fossils. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • I wish also, before starting, to review everything that has been done of late in paleontology, zoology, and comparative anatomy, that I may, in behalf of all these sciences, take advantage of the circumstances in which I shall be placed. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • Before the time came for the completion of the second part of the zoology, his own knowledge had matured so much, that to be true to the facts, he must have remodeled the whole of the first part, and for this he never found the time. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
 

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