Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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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Examples
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* More than any other person in zoological writing, Olson has produced an impressive list of scathing quotes and insults.
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* More than any other person in zoological writing, Olson has produced an impressive list of scathing quotes and insults.
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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. [
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And the old Russian "zoological" nationalism was satisfied by this primitive solution of the problem.
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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:
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"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.
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If we start with what might be called "zoological" races or strains differing, for instance, in their hair (woolly-haired Africans, straight-haired
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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.
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He was calling himself a “zoological anthropologist.”
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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.
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