Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The branch of herpetology that deals with snakes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The zoölogical study of serpents. Also, less properly, ophidology.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents.

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  • noun biology The study of snakes, a branch of herpetology.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek ophis, snake + –logy.]

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Ancient Greek ὄφις (ophis, "serpent, snake") + λόγος (logos, "knowledge").

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