ICHTHYOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ichthyology mean? 

• ICHTHYOLOGY (noun)
  The noun ICHTHYOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of zoology that studies fishes

  Familiarity information: ICHTHYOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICHTHYOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of zoology that studies fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ichthyology" is a kind of...):

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Domain member category:

homocercal (possessing a symmetrical tail that extends beyond the end of the vertebral column (as in most bony fishes))

heterocercal (possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe)

Derivation:

ichthyologist (a zoologist who studies fishes)